Pakistan is hopeful that Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee would take a decision on attending the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit scheduled in Islamabad next month after the assembly election in Gujarat.

Vajpayee had, on Sunday, asserted that he would consider attending the meet if Pakistan completely stopped cross-border terrorism.

Pakistan has proposed January 11-13 for the summit.

"Pakistan wants friendship but India should reciprocate our feelings, as it takes two to tango," Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said. He said both countries should initiate a dialogue to find solutions to the problems facing them.

Defending President Pervez Musharraf's policy towards India, he said both Vajpayee and Musharraf were close to signing an agreement in Agra but the talks collapsed at the last moment as "some elements" in the Bharatiya Janata Party did not want improvement in bilateral ties for their "vested interests".

Referring to reports about export of nuclear technology to North Korea, Kasuri said some lobbies, which were not happy with the improvement in relations between Pakistan and US, were working there to harm Pakistan.

"Pakistan cannot even think of exporting nuclear technology to any country," he said, adding, "North Korea was far ahead of Pakistan in the field of nuclear technology. When North Korea has the capability to fire missiles thousands of miles away then why it would need precision technology from others?"

"North Korea too had never said that it got nuclear technology from Pakistan," he said.

The Pakistan government has a clear policy that it would not violate Missile Technology Control Regime, Kasuri added.