–Foreign minister thanks Washington for defusing tensions between Pakistan and India through ‘private diplomacy’ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday said that tensions between Pakistan and India that escalated in the aftermath of the Pulwama attack “seem to be de-escalating”. Qureshi said this while addressing a national conference on the start of the next phase of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) at the Institute of Strategic Studies. Moreover, the foreign minister added, a Pakistani delegation is due to visit New Delhi to hold dialogue over the Kartarpur Corridor. Speaking on Pak-China relations, Qureshi said that this relationship contributes to peace and political stability in the region and counters aggressive forces that threaten to undermine it. The foreign minister also thanked US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his role in diffusing the current situation with India, iterating that “private diplomacy worked”.

Source: Pakistan Today March 06, 2019 07:36 UTC