PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party (ANP) Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan Thursday urged both India and Pakistan to show flexibility and pragmatism as the tense relations between the two countries had contributed only to backwardness of the people of the Indo-Pak.
According to a press release issued from Baacha Khan Markaz, Asfandyar said this when Indian High Commissioner Sharad Sabharwal called on him at the Pukhtunkhwa House in Islamabad.
Both the leaders discussed matters of mutual interest. Asfandyar told the visiting diplomat that people of both the neighbouring countries had paid a heavy price for the tense relations between the governments of the two countries and it was high time to unite against poverty and backwardness.
The ANP chief, who is also the chairman of National Assemblys standing committee on foreign affairs, said the secret of South Asias development was in the cordial relations between the two countries as without lasting peace the progress and development could not take place.
Asfandyar said both the countries should explore new vistas of confidence building. He lamented that even after lapse of 62 years the relations between both the countries could not be described as friendly.
