ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Monday stated that Pakistan will not hold dialogue with India on Indian terms and conditions.
Talking to media in Islamabad the former minister said that there can be no dialogue with India without the water issue and Kashmir issue on table.
Speaking to media representatives 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, Aziz said that even if cordial terms are not possible with India, Pakistan does not want hostile relations with India.
Aziz reiterated that Pakistan will take up the issue of Indian leadership’s recent anti-Pakistan statements with the United Nations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
Sartaj also said that he is scheduled to visit a foreign minister’s conference by Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah tomorrow, where the Yemen-Saudi conflict and the plight of Rohingya Muslims will be taken up.
