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The interior minister of Pakistan, Rehman Malik, met with Sharad Sabharwal, the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan in Islamabad. Their meeting has added fuel to the assumption of Pakistan wishing to have a talk with India. But the reports about the meeting have been dismissed by Shiv Shanker Menon, Indian Foreign Secretary. He has made it very clear that the talk with Pakistan will be resumed only if Pakistan agrees on the dialogues and agenda which give more importance to the punishment to 26/11 executors and the terror network which is present in Pakistan.
According to Menon, the High Commissioner had told the Pak minister that talks will be welcomed only if these criteria are accepted. The Pak minister has told Sharad Sabharwal that Pakistan was ready to take actions against the doers of 26/11 and that India has to put confidence on their nation. It is also being told that the High Commissioner had passed his concerns about the release of Hafiz Saeed, the chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa to the central government.
He has also been quoted saying that Pakistan has to dismantle the entire network of terrorism so that talks between India and Pakistan can be initiated.
On the other hand, the Pak interior minister has been quoted saying that Pakistan government is really “serious” about investigations related to 26/11. He also mentioned that the India should tryst the Pak government for maintaining the peace of the South Asia. With regard to the release of Hafiz Saeed, the Pak minister told that the release had been made according to a justice trial done independently.
