India on Friday said it could go more than half way to have better ties with Pakistan as things improve and pitched for consolidation of trade between the two countries.
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram expressed the hope that relations with Pakistan would improve and lead to consolidation of trade links.
Reacting to Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal's demand, the Home Minister said “as things improve we could go more than half way to have better relations with Pakistan. Trade must resume with Pakistan. I sincerely hope it will come sooner than later.”
Mr. Chidambaram, who inaugurated a visitors' gallery where freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were cremated, said people living in border areas “carry with them a special burden and responsibility.”
