Pakistan wants meaningful talks with India: Bashir

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan wants meaningful dialogue with India and there is no other option except to hold talks with a sincere intent to resolve all issues, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir told foreign envoys at a briefing held at Foreign Office in Islamabad Friday.

He said terrorism is a big challenge for Pakistan also but India should not hold the peace process hostage at the hand of this single issue.

Bashir said that the delay in the resumption of composite dialogue had also affected the SAARC activities.

The foreign secretary said both countries had agreed to remain in contacts despite differences each other stance.

To a question about Mumbai probe, the top diplomat said that investigations were still underway and no deadline could be given in this regard. So far, investigations are not complete even in India, where the incident took place, he said

Committee formed to probe police torture

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif Friday constituted a committee to hold an inquiry into the brutal incidents of police torture and asked the authorities to forward the cases of involved policemen to court.

However, no order was passed about involvement of an MPA, who was also seen supervising a similar act of police torture in Jalalpur Bhatian.

The decision was made by the chief minister at a high-level meeting called in the wake of several incidents of police torture aired by country’s broadcast media extensively.

The chief minister was dismayed at public flogging of accused by the police.

Such incidents could not be tolerated, he said, asking the police high ups to regularly undertake an inspection to control such brutal acts of violence.

He also thanked the media for highlighting the issue.

Punjab’s Inspector General submitted a report about incidents of torture witnessed in Chiniot and Jalalpur Bhatian.

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