New Delhi: Pakistan on May 7 dismissed suggestions that Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali's announcement of confidence building measures with India were "inadequate", saying these were far larger than those announced by Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

"The list of confidence building measures announced by the Prime Minister of Pakistan is far larger than what was announced by the Prime Minister of India," Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mohammad Kasuri told 'NDTV' over phone from Islamabad.

"We appreciate the statesmanship shown by the Prime Minister of India and expect that the people of India and the government display a greater degree of generosity towards what the Prime Minister of Pakistan has said," Kasuri said.

Official sources in Delhi termed as "completely inadequate" Jamali's announcements on May 6 for restoration of air and surface transport links and diplomatic ties with India.

The Pakistan Foreign Minister also said it was in the interest of the people of Pakistan and India to get closer to each other, instead of finding faults with the measures announced by Islamabad.

Referring to reports in a section of the media that External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha during his recent visit to some African countries tried to block Pakistan's re-entry into the Commonwealth, he said, "If true, this is an act of commission."

Kasuri admitted there had been incidents of infiltration in Jammu and Kashmir, but he said the infiltrators do not have permission of the Pakistan President to do so.

On the issue of over flight rights to Indian airliners, Kasuri said officials from the respective airlines should work out modalities.

PTI