Pak blames lack of consensus in India for stalled dialogue

Islamabad, Nov 30 (PTI) Pakistan has said "political
compulsions" and "divisions in Indian polity" were preventing
India from holding dialogue with Islamabad, after the foreign
ministers of the two countries avoided a meeting despite being
under the same roof.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who represented
Pakistan at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meet in Port
of Spain, said he came face-to-face with Prime Minister of
India Manmohan Singh and his Indian counterpart S M Krishna
but did not hold any dialogue.
"Well we did get a chance to meet, we were under the same
roof. I met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, I met Foreign
Minister Krishna but there was no dialogue," Qureshi said.
He said despite acknowledging at a bilateral meeting in
at Sharm-el-Sheikh that dialogue was the only way forward for
the two countries, India did not yet appear to be ready.
"There are political compulsions, lack of consensus on
what to do. So whenever they are ready they know how to get in
touch with me," Qureshi told Times Now in Port of Spain.
"... Now it seems India is yet not ready perhaps because
of domestic considerations, perhaps because of a division in
Indian polity," he said. (MORE) PTI