Pakistan is likely respond to India's offer to resume foreign secretary level talks on Wednesday. India has proposed 18 and 25th of this month for talks to be held in New Delhi.<br/><br/>While Indian maintains that the focus of talks will be on the core issue of terrorism, Pakistan is keen on the resumption of composite dialogue process.<br/><br/>Reports from Islamabad say that Pakistan will set its agenda for the talks at a high level meeting chaired by the foreign minister Mr. Shah Mahmood Qureshi.<br/><br/>Highly placed government sources in New Delhi said that Centre is open to hold discussions on all issues, Islamabad wants to raise issues of Siachen, river waters, Sir creak apart from Kashmir in the talks.<br/><br/>AIR correspondent adds that India made the offer of talks to Pakistan after Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008 which led to strained relations between the two countries. India has made it clear that the composite dialogue process with Pakistan can be resumed only after the perpetrators of Mumbai carnage are brought to justice and terror infrastructure is completely destroyed from the soil under Pakistani control.
News On AIR | February 10, 2010 1:52 PM
Pakistan likely to respond India's offer to resume talks today