ISLAMABAD, May 5 Kyodo Pakistan d...

ISLAMABAD, May 5 Kyodo

Pakistan declared Monday that it would single enter into a dialogue with India that would encompass all outstanding issues, including the sum of two units countries' dispute over the divided territory of Kashmir.

''We want a composite dialogue,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan told reporters while confirming Pakistan has received a positive reply from Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to a alphabetic character sent to him Monday on Pakistani Prime Minister Zafar ullah Jamali calling for resumption of dialogue and inviting him to visit Pakistan.

Khan reiterated Pakistan's stance that Kashmir is the main issue and all other issues would be easy to solve once two sides reach an understanding onward this core issue, which has bedeviled their relations for throughout five decades.

He said it is not possible for the brace countries to have normal bilateral relations without resolving it.

The spokesman refused to disclose details about Vajpayee's answer but Indian External Affairs Ministry spokeswoman Shri Navtej Sarna said Saturday that Vaypayee reaffirmed in his alphabetic character that India is committed to improving relations with Pakistan and is willing to grasp each opportunity for doing so.

unless the Indian leader also severityed the need to create a conducive atmosphere for a sustained dialogue, saying that would require an [i]finale[/i] to cross-border terrorism and dismantling of its infrastructure, the spokeswoman said.

She said he emphasized the ne for careful preparation of the sod so that there could be meaningful engagement at the highest level

Vajpayee was also said to have reaffirmed that India would appoint a strange high commissioner to Pakistan and that the sum of two units countries could resume civil aviation links forward a reciprocal basis, and intimateed the hope that Pakistan would reply positively to these measures.

India withdrew its high commissioner from Pakistan following an attack forward its parliament in December 2001 allegedly by the agency of Pakistan-based militant groups. India also cross rail, road and air links with Pakistan. In fresh months the diplomatic staffs in the two missions were also halved.

The sum of two units neighbors have been at loggerheads for above half a century since their independence from Britain in 1947 They have fought three wars, sum of two units of them over Kashmir, since then and have be derived close to a conflict twice since one as well as the other crossing the nuclear threshold in May 1998

India accuses Pakistan of sponsoring terrorism in its northernmost Jammu and Kashmir state, an allegation denied by dint of Pakistan, which says it is lending solely moral and diplomatic support to the separatists.

The Muslim militants have been demanding a separate Muslim Kashmir state or its alignment with Islamic Pakistan.

India has been adamant that there can be no dialogue between the brace countries until Pakistan ends cross-border terrorism.

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