Even though Nepal’s Foreign Minister Mahendra Bahadur Pandey is trying hard to arrange a bilateral meeting between prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Saarc Summit in Kathmandu, Pakistan has made its position very clear about any future dialogue with India.
In a television interview in Katmandu, Pandey was quoted as saying; “We are trying to organise bilateral talks between India and Pakistan during the summit so that it can set an example.”
Pakistan has never ruled out a meeting with Modi but has laid out conditions. The Foreign Office says that since it was India that had abruptly cut off the dialogue with Pakistan, it was now up to New Delhi to resume this dialogue. It has never been adverse to dialogue and in fact only last week Sharif called for a return to the negotiating table.
