With Pakistan insisting on putting Kashmir on top of the agenda, India Monday made it clear that it was ready to talk about everything, but the process has to be a graduated one and it will continue to focus on cross-border terror.
Responding to his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi's remarks that he would not visit India for a 'leisure' trip, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said that his invitation was for 'serious' discussions and made it clear that all issues cannot be 'exhausted' in just one sitting.
'We have decided that we will talk everything but it has to be graduated talks between the two foreign ministers,' he told Times Now news channel.
'We just cannot in one sitting exhaust all the subjects regardless of how complex these subjects are,' he replied when asked about Pakistan's insistence that Kashmir and other issues like the dispute over Siachen glacier should be brought within the ambit of discussions.
'They (Pakistan) seem to be very focussed on so many other issues as much as we are focussed on terror, terror-based instrumentalities and terror-based approach to solve any problem between our two countries,' he said.