New Delhi: The breakthroughs between Pakistan and India accomplished by recent talks between Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif are not disintegrating, sources in the government told NDTV today, attributing aggressive comments made yesterday by a top Pakistani official to posturing for "a domestic audience."
The sources said that India remains committed to the joint statement issued by both countries after PM Modi met with Mr Sharif last week on the sidelines of a regional summit in Ufa in Russia.
The joint statement, which was unexpected and delivered in rare occurrence by the Foreign Secretaries of the two countries, was Prime Minister Modi's idea, said sources.
On Monday, Mr Sharif's National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz said his country would need "more information and evidence" for the 26/11 trial. Mr Aziz also said that there could be no dialogue without Kashmir on the agenda, and the issue would certainly figure in his talks with his Indian counterpart.
India would go by the joint statement, which is a summary of what happened in the meetings between the two prime ministers, sources said, adding that the "Pakistan and Indian foreign secretaries wrote the joint statement together."
An agreement on accelerating the 26/11 trial in Pakistan against plotter Zaki-Ur-Rehman Lakhvi and six others was viewed as a key takeaway of the talks. Yesterday, however, Mr Aziz appeared to put the ball back in India's court for the slow progress of the trial, which was seized by opposition parties as a u-turn.
Officials asserted that in the talks, PM Modi told Mr Sharif that he needed to take action against Lakhvi; that people in India are angry after his release from a jail in Pakistan in April.
The sources said that India remains committed to the joint statement issued by both countries after PM Modi met with Mr Sharif last week on the sidelines of a regional summit in Ufa in Russia.
The joint statement, which was unexpected and delivered in rare occurrence by the Foreign Secretaries of the two countries, was Prime Minister Modi's idea, said sources.
On Monday, Mr Sharif's National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz said his country would need "more information and evidence" for the 26/11 trial. Mr Aziz also said that there could be no dialogue without Kashmir on the agenda, and the issue would certainly figure in his talks with his Indian counterpart.
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India would go by the joint statement, which is a summary of what happened in the meetings between the two prime ministers, sources said, adding that the "Pakistan and Indian foreign secretaries wrote the joint statement together."
An agreement on accelerating the 26/11 trial in Pakistan against plotter Zaki-Ur-Rehman Lakhvi and six others was viewed as a key takeaway of the talks. Yesterday, however, Mr Aziz appeared to put the ball back in India's court for the slow progress of the trial, which was seized by opposition parties as a u-turn.
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Officials asserted that in the talks, PM Modi told Mr Sharif that he needed to take action against Lakhvi; that people in India are angry after his release from a jail in Pakistan in April.
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