'Govt. should spell out its coherent stand with regards to Pakistan': Cong.

The Congress party on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the centre to spell out its coherent stand with regards to Pakistan, saying there is utter confusion over the ruling party's stand so far.

"The government has to spell out its consistent, coherent stand. There is utter confusion; these things are happening under the nose of the government and the nation demands an explanation," Congress Party leader and spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi.

"What kind of flip-flop-flip do they want to permit? They had earlier cancelled talks with Pakistan on the behaviour of the Pakistan High Commission, the Hurriyat and the other extremists or separatist organisations," he added.

Singhvi also asked the government to reveal its stand over the decision to send Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar to Pakistan during his recent SAARC Yatra.

"Meanwhile, the BJP goes and forms the government in Jammu and Kashmir and you have seen the kind of statements coming from that state. Now, the person released from that state is meeting the High Commission. The person released is meeting, the Hurriyat is meeting, other separatist are meeting," he added.

Earlier on Sunday, Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq maintained that the people of Jammu and Kashmir must be engaged in the dialogue between India and Pakistan, calling for talks to be held at a bureaucratic as well as political level.

Admitting that the Kashmir issue can never be solved militarily, the separatist leader called for a political process to address the matter.

Meanwhile, the Hurriyat leaders today attended the Pakistan Day celebrations at the Islamic Republic's High Commission in the national capital.

The Hurriyat presence at the Pakistan Day celebrations comes after the meeting held between separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Islamabad's envoy Abdul Basit in New Delhi earlier on March 9.

Basit and Geelani had reportedly discussed the political developments in Jammu and Kashmir, with the Pakistani envoy also appraising the separatist leader of Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar's visit to Islamabad.

Pakistan Day commemorates the Lahore Resolution of 1940 and the adoption of the first constitution of the country during its transition into an Islamic Republic on March 23, 1956.