SUKKUR: Federal Minister for Postal Service Mir Israrullah Zehri has urged India to avoid escalating tensions saying that Pakistan is committed to peace but its desire for peace should not be taken as weakness. Talking to a local news agency at office of the Deputy Post Master General Sukkur here on Monday, he said that wars have neither solved problems in past nor they would yield positive results in future.
The Minister made it clear that Pakistan has the capability to defend the country if war was imposed. But, he added, Pakistan wants to maintain regional peace and will continue to make efforts in this direction to avoid any harm to peace in the region.
He said that history is witness that Pakistan always avoided war and was ready to settle the Kashmir issue through talks. While India continues to raise hue and cry over one incident, Pakistan was the worst hit by terrorism for the last ten years, Israrullah said. We have suffered enormous losses in combating terrorism and no other country can match the sacrifices Pakistan has offered. “We lost even our dear leader Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto due to menace of terrorism,” he added.
To a question, Federal Minister said that present government is striving for the socio-economic uplift of the people at an accelerated pace and providing basic amenities of life to the people of backward areas on priority basis aiming at alleviating poverty and sense of deprivation from these areas.
He said that President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari has asked the Parliamentarians to keep close contact with the people of their constituencies in order to mitigate the sufferings of people of that area promptly.
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