Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri has welcomed Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's offer of 'Treaty of peace, security and friendship', and said that the tone was positive.
Talking to newsmen after attending a moot on "Global Corporate Response to South-Asian Earthquake" here on Saturday, Kasuri said that such offers had come from both India and Pakistan in the past, and we should seriously think that why we could not materialise such offers.
He said that track record of Pakistan shows that Pakistan was not only focusing on Kashmir and the composite dialogues being underway for the last two years, but had made much progress and covers many dimensions.
"Nevertheless, we should not forget that we had fought six wars on Kashmir, including three major wars and also had been fighting on Siachin for the last 25 years. We should realise that we had to resolve all the out standing issues."
He said that in order to strengthen the peace lobbies working in both the countries, what we could do is that let us resolve relatively more simple issues like Siachin and Sir Creek and let us remain focused on discussing Kashmir.
Kasuri also welcomed the statement of Indian Prime Minister that India was not afraid of talking on Kashmir issue. He said that many Kashmir specific confidence building measures (CBMs) had been taken in the past such as Muzaffarabad-Srinager bus service and opening of border between the two countries at five points of Kashmir.
He stressed the need for changing the bureaucratic mindset. He said that President Musharraf had taken courageous and visionary stance on Kashmir issue.
Regarding Pak-Afghan relations, he said that trade between the two countries had registered 60-time increase during last four years, and strong economic relations would also lead to improvement in other spheres too.