Islamabad: 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 the Mumbai attacks.
“It was decided that Foreign Secretary-level talks between the two countries would be held on February 25 in New Delhi,” the Pakistan Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement here, accepting the offer made by India about two weeks back.
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.
Pak agrees to meet in New Delhi on Feb 25
