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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Indo-Pak talks on nuclear CBMs open
ISLAMABAD: Expert-level officials of India and Pakistan discussed conventional and nuclear confidence-building measures as part of a peace process between the two neighbours, as two-day talks began on Monday in Islamabad.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Additional Secretary Munawwar Saeed Bhatti represented Pakistan, while Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary YK Sinha headed the Indian delegation. Last week, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said that Pakistan was committed to pursuing a constructive, sustained and result-oriented process of engagement with India, which would include the issue of Kashmir.
Despite Pakistan’s troubled relations with the US and neighbouring Afghanistan, its relationship with India is showing improvement. In November this year at the sidelines of the SAARC summit in Maldives, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Manmohan Singh, pledged to open a ‘new chapter’ in the otherwise fragile relations between Islamabad and New Delhi. inp
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk