ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is not expecting any immediate breakthrough in talkswith India primarily due to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modiattitude.
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry has said thegovernment does not expect the Indian leadership to be inclined to respondpositively to Pakistan’s desire of talks to resolve issues.
The federal minister said that the upcoming election in India and IndianPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s anti-Pakistan stance were the reasons behindthe government’s low expectations to immediately mend ties with itsneighbour.
Furthermore, he said that the reason behind the differences with the US wasits plan to give a role to India in Afghanistan while Islamabad andWashington were in agreement that the US should leave a stable Afghanistan.
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“A stable Afghanistan is in Pakistan’s interests, as the nation hasalready suffered a lot,” he said.
The minister also said that a white-paper on power load-shedding andcorruption would shortly be released before the media, as the claims of theprevious government to have ended load-shedding were unfounded and untrue.
