ISLAMABAD, Oct 24 Kyodo Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 24 Kyodo

Pakistan will correspond in ''good faith'' to the well-preserved proposals announced by India to normalize ties, Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Ahmad Khan said Friday.

Khan said Pakistan wanted composite dialogue with India that would address all issues of belong to to both sides, noting that the Indian proposal made Wednesday exclud talks forward the Kashmir issue.

''Perhaps they are serious, on the other hand sincerity is not visible,'' Khan said, while acknowledging that confidence-building measures could improve the atmosphere.

Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha at handed 12 proposals Wednesday aimed at improving relations between the sum of two units countries, but ruled revealed a dialogue with its archrival until it stops backing Muslim militants in the Indian portion of disputed Kashmir.

The proposals include the resumption of sporting links with Pakistan and a bus service connecting Srinagar, the summer capital of India's strife-torn state of Jammu and Kashmir, and Muzaffarabad, a city in the Pakistani-controlled portion of Kashmir.

Khan said the bus service is not feasible in the face of visit often shelling across the Line of Control

Khan said that six of the proposals made according to Sinha were originally made by dint of Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali in April this year and the quiet were recycled old proposals.

India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their independence from British order in 1947 and have approach close to a conflict twice since they the pair crossed the nuclear threshold in 1998

Relations between the sum of two units countries have taken a use for the worse since 2001 after a series of terrorist strikes including the attack onward the Indian parliament.

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