Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks in Amritsar offering a 'Treaty of Peace, Security and Friendship' to them reflected some positive sentiments and contained an acknowledgement about the need to move forward on the resolution of Kashmir and other contentious issues.
"We have seen some reports about the Prime Minister's remarks and all reports seem to be positive," said Pakistan Foreign office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam.
Flagging off the Sahib bus service linking the two Punjabs, the Prime Minister offered a peace, security and friendship to Pakistan as a culmination of the ongoing peace process.
On Singh's remarks that solutions to the contentious issues should be based on ground realities, Aslam said from Pakistan's point of view the ground reality is that status quo - meaning accepting the LoC as a solution to the Kashmir issue - was not acceptable to either Pakistan or the Kashmiris.
"A viable solution has to be found acceptable to all parties," said she.
On terrorism, Aslam said this is an issue concerning all countries. "Islamabad opposes terrorism and there is a need for Pakistan as well as other countries to work more in this regard."
Aslam said Musharraf has been maintaining that the resolution of the Kashmir issue would help the people of South Asia to realise their full potential to effectively fight poverty and ignorance.
There was a need for bold steps from both the countries to resolve the contentious issue with sincerity and flexibility to overcome the legacy of the past, Aslam said.
She said Musharraf has taken bold steps by making the country a hub of economic activity and offering energy corridor through gas pipelines from Iran and Central Asia to India.
The resolution of the Kashmir issue would help restore the confidence and remove the mistrust between the two countries, she said.
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