news details |
|
|
| Malik meets Rao | | | NEW DELHI : With India offering to have Foreign Secretary level talks, Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik today met Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao to discuss the timing for it.
India has proposed two set of dates in this month and is awaiting a response from Pakistan, sources said here.
Reflecting a thaw in the relations, Rao had telephoned her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir about a week ago to invite him to Delhi for talks.
Bashir had welcomed the offer and said he would get back to her with a response, the sources said.
India made it clear that terrorism will be the focus of the Foreign Secretary level talks but it will "enter into the discussions with an open and positive mind".
India had suspended the composite dialogue after the Mumbai terror attacks and refused to restart the process before it could see any concrete action being taken by Pakistan in punishing those behind the carnage.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
