BEIJING: India and Pakistan should learn to live with each other’s
positions and talk so that "issues" between the two countries do not
pass on to the next generation, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has
said.
Khar, who is on her maiden visit to China, said, Pakistan
accords priority to improve ties with neighbours specially India and
Afghanistan.
Difficulties in the relationship between Pakistan
and India should not simply pass on to the next generation, Khar, who
was elevated as Pakistan’s foreign minister last month, told state-run
China Daily.
Besides unresolved "core issues", mutual trust must be built by looking at other issues, she said.
Islamabad and New Delhi have to learn to live with each other’s positions and talk to each other.
"If
we can’t learn to trust each other, the issues will be passed on to the
next generation," she told Global Times. On Afghanistan, she said that
any action in the war ravaged country should be based on realities on
the ground and not on any artificial or preset deadlines.
"Pakistan
will support the Afghans’ decisions built on political reconciliation
and the strategic agreement reached with countries in the region," she
said.
But surprisingly, even Chinese media’s focus remained on
terrorism emanating from Pakistan, while covering her first visit, in
the light of August 1 charge by a municipal government of Kasghar, a
city in China’s Xinjiang which experienced brutal attacks by Uyghur
militants last month.
Highlighting China’s concerns, the
headline in today’s China Daily about her visit was Pakistan Foreign
Minister calls for "more robust" anti-terror cooperation. Online
