We are ready to cooperate with any effort or good offices by the United Nations or the international community for reducing tension, preserving peace and promoting dialogue between the two countries.

President Clinton has displayed unique qualities to bring parties in a conflict to the negotiating table, ... So we hope that his great qualities will be in play when he visits south Asia and he will exercise these qualities to bring Pakistan and India into a conflict resolution mode.

It is really impossible for these people to go out and vote.

Those who have tried to put their own preferred leaders in Afghanistan paid a very high price for that blunder.

There has been no change whatsoever in the capability of Indian forces massed on our borders and the Lind of Control, therefore there is no real reduction in the threat.

We talked also about nuclear issues, and I have informed the secretary of state that Pakistan will maintain the moratorium on further tests, that Pakistan will not be the first country to resume testing in the future.

We are prepared to enter into a dialogue with India at any place, at any level, anywhere, at any time.

Of course, the assumption that Pakistan is in a position to exercise complete influence is flawed.

Our fears have been born out by the reports of several international humanitarian agencies, which have stated that these sanctions have stifled economic activity inside Afghanistan. New sanctions will compound the misery of the Afghan people.