Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Muhammad Kasuri has said the Indian leadership is refusing to resume dialogue due to ‘‘internal political compulsions’’ and assailed his counterpart Yashwant Sinha and Defence Minister George Fernandes for joining the ‘‘no-talk rhetoric’’. ‘‘Top Indian leaders repeatedly ruled out possibility of talks with Pakistan because of their internal political compulsions,’’ Kasuri said in an interview to local daily Dawn published on Tuesday. He said he was concerned by the ‘‘anti-talk rhetoric’’ of Sinha and Fernandes, whom he considered ‘‘secular and socialist’’ leaders. This, the minsiter said, pointed towards a ‘‘deeply troubling’’ situation within Indian polity where ‘‘seemingly liberal people were also compelled to repeat such provocative assertions.’’
