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Pakistan has demanded N-deal with US similar to that of Indo-US deal. Ahead of the IAEA meeting on Friday, Pak PM Yousaf Raza Gilani, while his visit to US, has said that he also expects an India-like civil nuclear deal from the US.

At a gathering under the aegis of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Middle East Institute, Gilani added, “there should be no preferential, there should be no discrimination. If they want to give such nuclear status to India, we expect the same for Pakistan.”

The IAEA Board of Governors will meet in Vienna on Friday in a crucial session to consider for approval a key step for operation of the Indo-US nuclear deal.

If the 35-member Board approves the India-specific safeguards agreement by consensus leading to the signing of an unprecedented document, it would pave the way for India’s integration into the world of nuclear commerce.

According to a newspaper, the prime minister said that the government wanted to have cordial relations with all its neighbors, including India and Afghanistan, considering it a guarantee to regional peace.

“With India, we want to resolve all issues including the core issue of Kashmir,” he said when asked about the relationship with its eastern neighbors. He added that Pakistan had good trade ties with India.

Gilani also show his concern over terrorism and extremism, Pak-US relations including the economy and the scope of democracy in the country.

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The Indo-Pak joint anti-terror mechanism is expected to meet in New Delhi later this month to discuss collaboration in fighting the menace. It is expected to talk about cross-border linkages to various terror incidents, including Ajmer and Hyderabad that occurred in India. Evidence about the issue are supposed to be laid in the meeting from Indian side.

This will be the third meeting of the mechanism, set up in November 2006 in the aftermath of serial blasts on Mumbai trains. The dates for the meeting are not yet fixed. The meeting is likely to take place in the second half of the month.

The meeting is taking place in the aftermath of the Jaipur serial blasts that killed over 60 people. The incident is however unlikely to be figure in the talks as the investigators have not reached any firm conclusion as to who were behind the terror strike. Investigation in the case is still going on.

After his talks with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee last month, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi agreed that terrorism is a “common menace” for the two countries and they should work together to fight it. The meeting assumes significance considering the readiness of the new democratic dispensation in Pakistan to cooperate with India in fighting terrorism.

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