New Delhi: India and Pakistan should follow the China-Taiwan model of helping each other's economic advancement even though differences persisted, a member of a visiting Pakistani Parliamentary delegation said today (Aug 31, 2004).

Stressing that it was time the neighbours came together, Kunwar Khalid Yunus, a MQM (Mohjir Quami Movement) member from Karachi who was born in Sambhal (UP) said, while India and Pakistan have a dispute over a territory, China and Taiwan have a dispute over a whole country and yet both were spending billions of dollars on each other.

In an interactive session with senior journalists, the 19-member delegation led by Gohar Ayub Khan, former National Assembly Speaker and foreign minister, strongly felt that notwithstanding certain 'hiccups' that may come up, New Delhi and Islamabad should sustain the composite dialogue process.

"We should continue talking and create the right atmosphere and the goodwill generated will help further the peace process," he said.

The Pakistani MPs acknowledged that there was no quick fix solution to the vexed Jammu and Kashmir issue and the two sides should gradually move forward on it.

Pakistan Muslim League MP M P Bhandara felt the issue of documents for starting the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus service should be quickly sorted.

The Pakistan Government is willing to accept any document other than passports, he said.