Islamabad: Pakistan is rankled by India's positioning on the Foreign Secretary level talks and External Affairs Minister SM Krishna's remarks on no resumption of Composite Dialogue.
"We have noted with concern remarks attributed by the media to India's External Affairs Minister on the forthcoming meeting of the Foreign Secretaries in New Delhi that these will be unifocal and that there would be no resumption of Composite Dialogue. This is contrary to our understanding," Pakistan's Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said in a statement released on Wednesday.
"Outcome of the meeting should not be prejudged nor its scope circumscribed. A clarification is being sought on this account," the statement said.
Basit was reacting to Krishna's remarks that India would not restart the Composite Dialogue with Pakistan just yet and that the talks between the foreign secretaries of the two countries would only have terror on the agenda.
"The talks that are related at the level of foreign secretary, in order to carry forward the core issue as far as India is concerned about terror and terror driven activities emanating from Pakistan, we thought that it is necessary to engage Pakistan in this very critical area of terror," said Krishna.
Krishna made it clear that talks with Pakistan will only focus on terror.
"Hence we offered that the talks take place at the level of foreign secretaries. We do not know what issues Pakistan Foreign Secretary is going to raise. The brief for our secretary is that terror is the center and focus point of talks," said Krishna.
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