ISLAMABAD, May 6 Kyodo (EDS: RECA...

ISLAMABAD, May 6 Kyodo

(EDS: RECASTING LEAD, REWORDING JAMLI repeat IN 2ND PARA)

Pakistan upon Tuesday accepted India's offer to restore satiated diplomatic relations and reopen air and land traffic between the sum of two units neighbors and urged the Indian conduct to hold ''serious discussions'' upon their nuclear weapons capabilities.

''Nuclear realities in our region impose certain obligations and responsibilities onward our two countries. It is, therefore, important for as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but India and Pakistan to engage in serious discussions for nuclear and strategic stability in our region,'' Pakistan's Prime Minister Zafar ullah Jamali told a pres conversation Tuesday night.

Jamali was responding to a peace initiative India's Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee made last Friday that included the restoration of glutted diplomatic relations and a resumption of air, rail and road links between the couple countries.

The pair countries withdrew their ambassadors and parted air, rail and road links in the wake of an attack by way of Kashmiri militants on the Indian parliament in December 2001 that India blamed in succession Pakistan.

the couple countries have agreed to take back talks aimed at resolving all outstanding issues, including the territorial dispute through Kashmir, the core issue dividing the sum of two units countries.

While talking about the ne for measures aimed at nuclear and strategic stability, Jamali referr to a ''Memorandum of Understanding'' couple countries signed during Vajpayee's visit to Pakistan in February 1999

The memorandum says the ''two sides should engage in bilateral consultation forward security concept, and nuclear doctrine, with a view to developing measures for confidence building in the nuclear and conventional fields, aimed at avoidance of conflict.''

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