ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday said that doors for tactfulness on outstanding controversies with India remain open, but noted that terrain for a formative dialogue was lacking.
FO spokesperson Asim Iftikhar, in response to questions on ties with India at the daily briefing, said “ In tactfulness, you noway shut the doors.”
He said that there was a public agreement on this issue and consecutive governments had pursued the same policy of seeking a peaceful agreement of controversies with India. The questions were asked in the environment of preludes by the new government and the appointment of a trade minister in Delhi.
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PM Sharif and his Indian counterpart had changed dispatches after the former was tagged as the high minister to succeed Mr. Imran Khan.
The spokesperson, while answering a question, noted that notwithstanding Pakistan’s desire for a political resolution of controversies, “ the terrain for a fruitful, formative dialogue isn’t there”.
