Burns to pitch for talks between India and Pakistan

Washington, June 10 (PTI) US Under Secretary of State
for Political Affairs William Burns, whose four-day visit to
India starts Wednesday, will pitch for resumption of dialogue
between New Delhi and Islamabad.

"We would support more dialogue between the two
countries," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told
reporters at his daily press briefing Tuesday.

"I am sure that Under Secretary Burns will talk about
this issue among the many issues that he has on his agenda,"
Kelly said.

Burns, the first senior official of the Obama
administration to visit India after the recent Lok Sabha
(Lower House of Indian Parliament) polls, is scheduled to meet
India's External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and hold
meetings with Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and other
senior government officials.

India has suspended the composite dialogue process
with Pakistan in the wake of the terror attacks in India's
financial capital, Mumbai in November last year. PTI