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Pak PM Jamali welcomes Vajpayee`s statement

IRNA

Islamabad, Nov 12, IRNA -- Pakistan`s Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah 
Khan Jamali Wednesday welcomed the statement by Indian prime minister 
that New Delhi is not against holding talks with Islamabad. 
"This is positive development and we welcome it," state APP news 
agency quoted Jamali saying here at an Iftar reception hosted by 
minister of state for health. 
"Such an attitude can promote relations between the two 
countries," he said. 
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has reportedly made the
statement during his visit to Moscow. 
Pakistan`s Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri said on 
Tuesday that Pakistan wants normalization of relations with India but 
New Delhi will have to shed its `double standards`. 
Addressing a news conference in Islamabad after his tour of 
European countries, the foreign minister said in order to march 
towards peace, both the countries will have to rise above minor things
and take solid steps to initiate dialogue to resolve all outstanding 
problems including Kashmir. 
He referred to Indian prime minister`s confidence building 
measures announced in Srinagar and said, "Pakistan is more keen to 
hold dialogue as Prime Minister Jamali reciprocated these confidence 
building measures with nine proposals. 
When asked about the future of Parliament, Jamali said there was 
no threat to the democratic system adding that the assembly will 
complete its tenure. 
The National Assembly has completed the required working days 
during its first year in power, he added. 
Pakistan`s Lower House of the Parliament (National Assembly) 
completed its first parliamentary year on Tuesday afternoon. 
On the completion, the speaker prorogued the session sine die. It 
was the 10th session of the National Assembly which came into being in
November last. 
It is mandatory for the assembly to meet for at least 130 days in 
a year. 
The President General Pervez Musharraf could not address the joint
sitting of the National Assembly and the Senate (Parliament), a 
constitutional requirement, mainly because of the joint opposition 
agitation. 
All the opposition parties have been agitating in the Senate 
(Upper House) and the National Assembly against the Legal Framework 
Order, a constitutional amendment package, for its validation by the 
Parliament`s two-thirds majority. 
President Musharraf introduced changes in the Constitution known 
as Legal Frame Order before the present government came to power last 
year. 
The opposition has been insisting that LFO was not a part of the 
Constitution unless okayed by the Parliament. 
TSH/AH/210 
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