February 23, 2010 2:10 PM

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Pak wants all issues to be discussed on Thursday

<br/>Pakistan today said it wants all bilateral issues, including Kashmir, to be discussed at the Foreign Secretary-level talks on Thursday. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in Beijing that much progress would not be made if India restricts the dialogue to a narrow agenda of terrorism. He also hoped that the Composite Dialogue process between the two countries would be resumed in the near future.<br/><br/> Earlier, India said, it is disturbed by the call for jihad by certain elements in Pakistan and made it clear that terrorism will dominate the forthcoming Foreign Secretary-level talks. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said in London that India has consistently maintained that Pakistan should bring perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks to trial expeditiously. She said, New Delhi has been telling Pakistan to dismantle terror infrastructure on its soil and it is in this connection that Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir has been invited for talks in New Delhi on February 25. Mrs Rao said, Pakistan has taken certain steps against terrorism in a selective manner which is meaningless. She described the relationship between India and Pakistan as complex and said India has taken repeated steps to stablise the relations.<br/>

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