Zardari urges to reduce Indo-Pak tension
Islamabad, Jan.11: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari met foreign diplomats here and urged them to diffuse the simmering tension between India and Paksitan, on Saturday, Jan 10.
Zardari met Islamabad based foreign envoys from the United States, China, UK, France and Russia over dinner, and asked them to tone down India-Pakistan tension through effective diplomacy, The Nation reported.
“The international community should take into account the challenges which Pakistan is facing at its eastern and western borders and help reducing tension in the region," Zardari said.
He assured the foreign envoys that Pakistan is fully devoted towards eliminating terrorism from the region and that it would never allow use of its soil for any of the terrorism activities. “Pakistan would never allow the terrorists to use its soil for their nefarious designs. Islamabad would not compromise with the terrorists," Zardari said.
Zardari stated that Islamabad is fully co-operating with India in the Mumbai attack probe and it will act strictly if any one is found guilty in the terror attacks. “Pakistan will take strict action against anyone or any group found guilty in the terror attacks on Mumbai. We want the issue to be resolved peacefully through bilateral dialogue," he said.
Zardari
also
met
the
Indian
High
Commissioner
to
Pakistan
Satya
Pal
Sharma
and
discussed
regional
situation
with
him.
However,
spokesman
to
the
President,
Farhatullah
Babar,
denied
reports
about
Zardari
urging
the
diplomats
to
reduce
the
tension
between
India
and
Pakistan,
He
said
that
President
Zardari
did
not
make
any
such
statement.
“The President did not a make any speech at the function.Rather, it was a get together," Babar said.
ANI