India not fulfilling Sharm-el Sheikh commitment: Pak

New Delhi, Dec 20 (PTI) Pushing for resumption of
dialogue, Pakistan has suggested that India was not fulfilling
its commitment made in the Sharm-el Sheikh joint statement and
relinking talks with action against terrorism.

Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik said
the "diplomatic vacuum" would not help the cause of peace and
by not talking to each other, "we are strengthening the forces
which don't want the two countries to make any progress".
He insisted that Pakistan was not slow in taking action
against those behind the Mumbai attacks and contended that his
country was "looking for credible actionable evidence" to
ensure that the case is "fool-proof".
Referring to the "agreement" between Indian Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yusuf
Raza Gilani in Sharm-el Sheikh, Malik said, "something that we
agreed on, has not been acted upon".
He noted that there has been no dialogue since then which
"obviously shows that the agreement that we made in
Sharm-al-Sheikh is yet to be implemented".
A joint statement issued after talks between Singh and
Gilani in the Egyptian capital in July had delinked dialogue
from Pakistan's action against terrorism.
Asked if India had gone back on its commitment, Malik
said on Karan Thapar's Devil's Advocate programme, "They are
too strong words and I would not like to use it."
On whether India was trying to relink the dialogue
process and Pakistan's action against terrorism, Malik said,
"You can put it that way." (MORE) PTI AJD
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