Islamabad: Pakistan on Saturday night virtually ruled out barring Jamaat-ud Dawa chief Hafiz Sayeed, mastermind of Mumbai terror attack of 2008, from giving inflammatory speeches targetting India.
"In a democracy, there is freedom of expression in Pakistan as in India. There are all sorts of people making all kinds of speeches. There are people with extremist views in both India and Pakistan....and there is nothing you can do about it. There are views being expressed in Pakistan that I can do nothing about", Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told reporters in Islamabad.
He, however, said the "positive" thing is that the views of extremist elements do not reflect that of the majority opinion either in India or in Pakistan.
Asked if the tone laid down in Bhutan after the meeting between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani on the margin of SAARC summit yielded fruits, Qureshi said, "I think there is progress."
In this context, Qureshi also cited his meeting with Chidambaram discussing issues of concern.
"In a democracy, there is freedom of expression in Pakistan as in India. There are all sorts of people making all kinds of speeches. There are people with extremist views in both India and Pakistan....and there is nothing you can do about it. There are views being expressed in Pakistan that I can do nothing about", Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told reporters in Islamabad.
He, however, said the "positive" thing is that the views of extremist elements do not reflect that of the majority opinion either in India or in Pakistan.
Asked if the tone laid down in Bhutan after the meeting between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani on the margin of SAARC summit yielded fruits, Qureshi said, "I think there is progress."
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In this context, Qureshi also cited his meeting with Chidambaram discussing issues of concern.
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