Pakistan on Saturday assured India that it will move with “full force” against terrorists behind the 26/11 Mumbai carnage and asked New Delhi to join hands to defeat forces of terrorism that want to derail the dialogue between the two countries.
“We want to move ahead with full force against terrorism and terrorist organisations,” Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told a news channel in an interview when asked whether he could assure India of concrete action against the Mumbai terror accused.
“Terror is hurting Pakistan. We ourselves are victims of terrorism,” he added.
“We should join hands to defeat the common enemy,” said Mr Qureshi, while stressing that when India suspended dialogue with Pakistan following the Mumbai attacks 18 months ago the net beneficiaries were terrorists and extremists.
“It is in our mutual interest to have tangible progress and we will make tangible progress,” said Mr Qureshi, while setting a positive tone for his meeting with India’s external affairs minister S.M. Krishna in Islamabad July 15.
“I have full confidence that these meetings will develop into positive outcomes,” Mr Qureshi said while alluding to talks between home minister P. Chidambaram and his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik Friday that focussed on the Mumbai terror. —IANS