ISLAMABAD, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Stressing the Pakistan-India peace process should remain on track, a Pakistani minister on Friday reiterated Pakistan's commitment to normalization of bilateral relations through negotiated settlement of all outstanding issues, the state-run APP news agency reported.

    The peace process between Pakistan and India should remain on track as it is vital for the region and the interests of both the countries, Pakistani Information and Broadcasting Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani told newsmen in Rawalpindi, the twin city of Pakistani capital Islamabad.

    "We loudly say and it is our announced agenda that we want peace with India," he said, adding that Pakistan had taken steps to demonstrate its "sincerity", quoted by APP.

    Saying that people in Pakistan as well as in India want peace, the minister urged people in India and the international community to persuade New Delhi to continue the peace process with sincerity and vigor, according to the report.

    After the July 11 Mumbai train blasts which killed about 180, India put off the foreign secretaries' meeting originally scheduled for July 20, and the ongoing peace process between the two countries, initiated in 2004, came to a standstill. Enditem