Pakistan blames India for delaying talks

"The Indian leadership should put its act together and speak in one voice. We hear about the internal dissension about the normalisation of relations with Pakistan and that is worrying," Pakistan's new Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan, who succeeds High Commissioner to India-designate Aziz Ahmad Khan, said.

Claiming that the Pakistani leadership has been "very constructive, forward looking and positive in their approach towards resumption of dialogue", he said, "Unfortunately, we haven't seen the same sort of tone from Indian leadership".

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He also accused the Indian leadership of trying to introduce conditionalities before the commencement of talks.

"Lots of conditionlaties are being introduced in the process that has been initiated. They are all coming from India. As far as we are concerned we are saying that no conditions.

Meanwhile, unlike Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who had declared that he would "retire" if he failed in his fresh peace bid, his Pakistani counterpart Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said he would not resign as he believed in "trying again."

Jamali, in an interview to Khaleej Times published on Monday, said he would lead the Pakistani side at the summit talks with Vajpayee but would not resign if the parleys failed to resolve the Kashmir dispute, because he believed in trying again.

Asked if he will follow Vajpayee who had reportedly said he would resign if he fail to solve the Kashmir dispute, Jamali said "if Vajpayee had said so, that is his wish and will. It is entirely up to him. But in politics the political approach has to be taken into consideration".