Pakistan will not hold dialogue on India's terms, says Sartaj Aziz

Islamabad, June 15: Adviser to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Monday said that Pakistan will not hold dialogue with India on New Delhi's terms.

"There can be no dialogue without the water issue and Kashmir as topics for discussion," said Sartaz Azia while talking to reporters in Islamabad after an inauguration of the 10th meeting of heads of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries.

He further said that even if cordial terms are not possible with India, Pakistan wants to maintain tension-free relations with India.

Sartaj reiterated that Pakistan will take up India's anti-Pakistan statements with the United Nations' Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.

India called off Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan in August last year after Pakistan High Commissioner in New Delhi Abdul Basit held talks with Kashmiri separatists.

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