Pakistan wants friendly ties with all neighbors, including India — envoy in Delhi

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s acting high commissioner to New Delhi on Tuesday said Islamabad wanted friendly relations with all its neighbors including India, adding that peace was inevitable in the South Asian region, local media reported.
India and Pakistan are holding the first meeting in three years today, Tuesday, of a commission on water rights from the Indus River in what is being seen as a further sign of rapprochement in relations frozen since 2019 during disputes over Kashmir.
Last month, India and Pakistan announced a rare agreement to stop firing on the bitterly-contested Kashmir border
“For the larger interest of the region peace within South Asia is inevitable,” Pakistani Charge d’ Affairs Aftab Hasan Khan was quoted by Pakistani media as saying while addressing an event in New Delhi to mark Pakistan Day.
According to the statement issued by the Pakistani mission in New Delhi, Khan said Pakistan wanted to have friendly relations with all countries including India.
“To achieve peace between Pakistan and India both countries shall resolve all outstanding issues ... through dialogue,” he said.
Pakistan and India have for decades sparred over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir which they both rule in part but claim in full. 
The ongoing Indus water talks are the latest in both nations’ tentative efforts to re-engage after a 2019 suicide bomb in Indian Kashmir that New Delhi blamed on Pakistan-based guerrillas, a charge Islamabad denies, and India’s move later that year to strip Kashmir’s constitutional autonomy.