Islamabad: Pakistan has said the "positive tone" of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks advocating an Indo-Pak Treaty of Peace, Security and
Friendship was "appreciable."
However, he cautioned that in the past, such offers had failed to materialise into something concrete.
"Pakistan welcomes Singh's remarks made at Amristar two days ago while flagging of the Amritsar-NankanaSahib bus service and the positive tone of his comments was appreciable," Foreign Minister Khursid M Kasuri said.
Singh had said the peace process "must ultimately culminate in our two countries entering into a Treaty of Peace, Security and Friendship to give meaning and substance to our quest for shared goals."
"I make this offer to the people of Pakistan on this historic occasion. I am sure the leadership of Pakistan will reciprocate", the Prime Minister said, while flagging off the Amritsar-Nankana bus service linking the two Punjabs.
But Kasuri said peace offers had been exchanged between India and Pakistan during the last few years but they had failed to materialise into something concrete, while not commenting specifically on Singh's Treaty proposal.
Pakistan has demonstrated the sincerity of purpose while also outlining various proposals and now it is for India to respond to these measures, Kasuri said.
On Singh's assertion that Pakistan should do more to curb cross border terrorism, he claimed Indian leaders had admitted that infiltration had reduced considerably.
"It would be a mistake to accuse Pakistan of every problem in India," he
said adding India was a huge country with several insurgency movements, including that of Naxalites.
He also denied the presence of any terrorist camps in Pakistan.
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