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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Zardari invites Singh to visit PakistanStaff Report
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday formally invited Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to visit Pakistan, saying it will provide an opportunity to the two sides to take stock of bilateral relations.
President’s spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar said the invitation had been extended through a letter sent to the Indian prime minister through Pakistan's High Commission in New Delhi.
The president in his letter also suggested to the Indian prime minister to visit his ancestral hometown on the occasion of birthday celebration of Baba Guru Nanak Sahib. This, the letter said, would not only be well received by the Pakistani nation but also reinforce our mutual desire to promote inter-faith and inter-religion harmony.
The president recalled his meeting with the Indian prime minister in New Delhi during his visit to Ajmer Sharif and expressed satisfaction over the forward movement on dialogue process and the taking place of several important engagements between the two countries.
“We had an excellent meeting in New Delhi when I visited India for pilgrimage to Ajmer Sharif in April this year. We are happy to see that the dialogue process between our two countries is moving forward. Recently, several important engagements between our two sides have taken place. We are confident that the intensity and the range of these engagements will help promote our ties in the right direction,” the president said in his letter.
He expressed the hope that further engagements will help promote ties and help in realising the dream of a peaceful and prosperous South Asia.
The president said that it was important to sustain the process and make it more productive and result-oriented.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk