‘Success in Indo-Pak talks not one-day affair’
11 March 2013 7:55 AM IST
Giving no time frame to official talks between India and Pakistan, the External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Sunday said that success in bilateral issues between two neighbours is a time taking affair and cannot be achieved immediately. Khurshid also termed Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf’s recent visit to India as ‘unofficial’.
‘Success (in issues related to India and Pakistan) is not achieved in a day or a moment. First, the foundation is made and then we subsequently go ahead to create an edifice,’ Khurshid, who officiated as the chief guest at the Raising Day celebrations of the CISF on Sunday in Ghaziabad said.
Khurshid had invited Ashraf for lunch on Saturday in Jaipur. He maintained the visit of the Pakistani Prime Minister was a courtesy extended by the Indian government when he desired to visit the Sufi shrine in Ajmer with his family.
‘It is courtesy that one is allowed to go to his place of prayer for the peace of the soul and mind. Similarly, when people from India want to visit a gurudwara for pilgrimage in Pakistan that is a courtesy,’ he said. Ashraf offered prayers at the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer.
‘Success (in issues related to India and Pakistan) is not achieved in a day or a moment. First, the foundation is made and then we subsequently go ahead to create an edifice,’ Khurshid, who officiated as the chief guest at the Raising Day celebrations of the CISF on Sunday in Ghaziabad said.
Khurshid had invited Ashraf for lunch on Saturday in Jaipur. He maintained the visit of the Pakistani Prime Minister was a courtesy extended by the Indian government when he desired to visit the Sufi shrine in Ajmer with his family.
‘It is courtesy that one is allowed to go to his place of prayer for the peace of the soul and mind. Similarly, when people from India want to visit a gurudwara for pilgrimage in Pakistan that is a courtesy,’ he said. Ashraf offered prayers at the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer.
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