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India,
Pakistan agree to carry forward dialogue process
Monday February 07, 2011 08:03:24 AM,
IANS
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Thimphu: The foreign
secretaries of India and Pakistan met Sunday in Bhutan's capital
and affirmed the need to carry forward the dialogue process to
resolve all ouststanding issues, an official said.
"The foreign secretaries had useful and frank discussions... they
agreed on the need of contructive dialogue between India and
Pakistan to resolve all all outstanding issues. They affirmed the
need to carry forward the dialogue process," Indian external
affairs ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said here after the
meeting.
The meeting between Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart
Salman Bashir on the sidelines of a meeting of the eight-nation
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), lasted
around 90 minutes.
The foreign secretaries will now brief their governments on the
talks.
The talks came even as both countries engaged in a spat over the
2007 Samjhauta Express train blast that killed many Pakistanis.
The Pakistan foreign office Saturday accused India of lacking
"courage to unearth culpability of Hindu extremists and their
links with some Indian Army personnel" in the train blast of 2007
in Panipat in Haryana.
The Samjhauta Express links India and Pakistan.
The spokesman expressed regret over the delay in the probe into
the blast and said it was unfortunate that India was unable to
complete its investigations despite the passage of four years.
Nearly 70 people, mostly Pakistanis, were killed in the horrific
bomb attack on the train Feb 18, 2007. Indian investigators
initially blamed Islamists for the attack.
Recent investigations have, however, revealed that rightwing Hindu
activists could have carried out the train attack along with
bombings in other places including Hyderabad, Malegaon and Ajmer.
Dismissing the statement, Rao said that India had never shied away
from sharing evidence with Pakistan and it would do so at the
appropriate time.
Indian officials also continued to press Islamabad to move against
the Pakistani masterminds who ordered the devastating terror
attack on Mumbai in November 2008.
The foreign secretaries' talks is expected to set the stage for a
meeting of foreign ministers S.M. Krishna of India and his
Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi in New Delhi this year.
Qureshi is not visiting Thimphu for the SAARC foreign ministers'
meeting Feb 8. Krishna will represent India.
The meeting between the Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries
was the first official talks to revive the dialogue process since
the meeting between Krishna and Qureshi broke down in Islamabad in
July last year.
"We are going into this with an open mind and constructive
attitude," Rao said earlier, adding it would be an "exploratory
discussion".
Her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir said he also looked
forward to the meeting. "My expectations are that we should be
working towards continuous engagement."
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