Indo-Pak Foreign Secretaries to meet in New Delhi on Feb 25

Rezaul H Laskar
Islamabad, Feb 12 (PTI) After a 14-month hiatus, India
and Pakistan will hold Foreign Secretary-level talks on
February 25 during which Islamabad will raise all "core
issues" and press for resumption of Composite Dialogue, which
was suspended after Mumbai attacks.

"It was decided that Foreign Secretary-level talks
between the two countries would be held on February 25 in New
Delhi," the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement here,
accepting the offer made by India about two weeks back.
Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao had called up
her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir and invited him to New
Delhi for talks. She had proposed February 18 or 25 for it.
The PMO statement said the decision on holding the
talks was taken at a meeting between Prime Minister Yousuf
Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
Bashir, who was present at the meeting, was directed
by Gilani that the talks with his Indian counterpart should be
"result-oriented and meaningful", it said.
The Pakistani side "should raise the core issues and
impress upon India the need for the expeditious resolution (of
these) through resumption of the Composite Dialogue", the
statement said.
The Indian side, while making the offer of talks, had
said that these would focus on terrorism emanating from
Pakistan and made it clear that composite dialogue could not
resume until "the environment of terror or the threat of
terror" persisted. (MORE) PTI RHL
RBT


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