President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday regretted threatening statements from India despite Pakistan's serious efforts to defuse tensions following last month's terrorist attacks in Mumbai.He was addressing a meeting of parliamentarians from the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Punjab at the Presidency.
The meeting is part of the president's ongoing consultations with lawmakers on the prevailing security and political situation, and focused particularly on the ties between the PPP and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in Punjab.
Sources privy to the meeting said Zardari told the PPP leaders his government had offered complete co-operation in the ongoing investigation into the Mumbai attacks, but India did not share with Islamabad any evidence to support its claims that elements from Pakistan were involved in the attacks.
Zardari told the legislators that the Pakistani government had adopted a responsible approach but would never compromise on national security and sovereignty.
He briefed the participants of the meeting about his interaction with world leaders and envoys who visited Pakistan after the Mumbai tragedy.
Dialogue: One of the participants told Daily Times the president was optimistic that the situation would normalise soon and India and Pakistan would resume their composite dialogue.