Pak keen for progress on Siachen, Sir Creek with India: Khar

Islamabad, Aug 9 (PTI) Pakistan has conveyed to India its
keenness for progress on "doable" issues like Siachen and Sir
Creek to create a "conducive" environment to talk about "core
issues" and move towards their resolution, Foreign Minister
Hina Rabbani Khar said on Tuesday.
Khar made the remarks while briefing the National
Assembly or lower house of parliament on her talks with her
Indian counterpart S M Krishna in New Delhi last month.
She said she had conveyed Pakistan's position on the
Siachen and Sir Creek issues and described her visit to New
Delhi as an "extremely successful trip".
"When we look into policies vis-a-vis Afghanistan and
India, we want to build a new relationship and a new era of
cooperation with each other.
We want to build trust, rather than to evaporate trust.
We want to build new foundation of relationship," she
said.
Pakistan's intention is to make the dialogue process with
India "uninterrupted and uninterruptible", Khar said.
"We want to create a conducive environment in which the
two countries could talk about core issues and move towards
their resolution," she remarked.
India and Pakistan had held a "frank, constructive,
cordial and meaningful" dialogue and agreed to carry forward
the process to peacefully resolve all outstanding issues, she
said.
Khar said she had delivered Prime Minister Yousuf Raza
Gilani's letter inviting his Indian counterpart to visit
Pakistan and this had been "accepted".
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had conveyed that he
is committed to heralding a "new spring" in relations between
the two countries, she said.
Singh conveyed to her that India wants friendly relations
with Pakistan and the resolution of all outstanding issues,
she added.
Pakistan wants good relations with all its neighbours,
especially those with which it has traditionally had difficult
ties, Khar said.
Pakistan wants to build trust with India and Afghanistan
and usher in a new era of cooperation, she said.
Though considerable progress was made towards resolving
the Sir Creek boundary dispute over the past decade, the issue
suffered a setback earlier this year when Pakistan reverted to
its traditional position of resolving the issue according to
the Bombay Government Resolution of 1914.
The two sides have also failed to make progress in
resolving the military standoff on Siachen as Pakistan is
unwilling to accept India's call to demarcate the actual troop
positions of both sides on the glacier.
During her speech in parliament, Khar said Prime Minister
Gilani took Pakistan's entire political leadership into
confidence before the Foreign Minister-level talks with India.
"He (the Indian Foreign Minister) got a message from
Pakistan that we are serious in engaging with India.
It is our desire and in the national interest to get
engaged with India in a meaningful way," she said.
Khar said she also met Kashmiri leaders, including Ali
Shah Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, during her stay in New
Delhi and assured them that Pakistan remained committed to its
political and legal position on Jammu and Kashmir.
She said she had reiterated Pakistan's continued support
to the objective of associating the true representatives of
the Kashmiri people with the dialogue with India on the
Kashmir issue.