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Indian Consulate in Karachi to start working in Jan

Staff Report

KARACHI: The political counsellor of the Indian high commission in Islamabad, Gitesh Sharma, on Saturday said the office of Indian Consulate in Karachi would start functioning from January.

Talks on the Karachi-Mumbai ferry service would be held next month, he said while talking to newsmen after meeting with the former nazim of Karachi, Niamatullah Khan, at his residence.

Mr Sharma said the Indian government had finalised the arrangements for the restoration of the Khokhrapar-Munabao rail link. Mr Sharma called for enhanced trade and economic activities between the two countries. Niamatullah Khan said the media could play an important role in normalising the ties between both the states.

He termed the Kashmir issue a major impediment in normalising the ties between Pakistan and India and said this core issue needed to be resolved on permanently in accordance with the UN resolutions.

He said the responsibility to resolve the Kashmir issue lay with India as its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, had promised self-determination to Kashmiris in 1948 from the UN platform. He said the October 8 earthquake in Kashmir and NWFP had provided a chance for Pak-India unity and both the countries should avail themselves of it.

The Indian diplomat presented a book to Naimatullah Khan, who gave the diplomat his book “Roshni Ka Safar” highlighting development activities in Karachi during his tenure as city nazim.

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