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India-Pakistan
Qureshi: Pakistan asks for liberal visa regime
2008-06-28
NEW DELHI: Pakistan wants a more liberal visa regime and improved people-to-people contacts and economic co-operation with India, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Friday. During a joint press conference with Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Qureshi announced that it was time to resolve the Jammu and Kashmir issue.
On Pakistan's terms, of course ...
“I have come representing the coalition of political parties that feels that a positive movement toward peace and security and normalisation is in our mutual interest,” AP quoted him as saying. During his visit, Qureshi held meetings with Mukherjee, Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Petroleum Minister Murli Deora.

He told reporters that he and the Indian external affairs minister had discussed the composite dialogue process. He also extended a fresh invitation for Singh to visit Pakistan.

Both ministers announced that India and Pakistan sought to build a mechanism of co-operation between their planning commissions to address inflation and poverty. They said terrorism was a common threat and the joint anti-terror mechanism would strive to achieve results through the exchange of information.
Sure, I can see the Paks giving up the high rollers in LeT, etc to the Indians, can't you?
The ministers also expressed a need for improved cross-Line of Control (LoC) confidence-building measures, including increased trade, bus and truck services. They also announced that they would co-operate in the fields of wind and thermal power generation, APP reported.

Qureshi, who also holds the petroleum portfolio, discussed the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline with Deora during a separate meeting on Friday. Following the meeting, both ministers announced that they had resolved the commercial differences holding up the pipeline. “I am happy to report that as far as Pakistan and India are concerned, we have resolved all bilateral issues,” Qureshi was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India, AFP reported. “We have reached an agreement on the principles of charging transit fee. India remains fully committed to the project,” Deora added.
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