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India, Pakistan to resume Siachen talks Monday
Sunday May 29, 2011 09:26:12 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: India is
expected to press Pakistan to authenticate the 110-km actual
ground position line (AGPL) along the Siachen Glacier-Saltoro
ridge in Jammu and Kashmir when their defence secretaries meet
here for two days beginning Monday.
The talks on the world's highest battlefield between Indian
Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar and his Pakistani counterpart,
Lt.Gen. (retd.) Syed Athar Ali, are being held after a gap of four
years and are part of the two nations' larger effort to resolve
outstanding issues between them, a defence ministry official said
here Sunday.
The two countries have decided to resume their dialogue, which was
put on hold after the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack,
following meetings between their prime ministers in Thimpu in
April 2010.
The foreign secretaries and home secretaries of the neighbours
have met since February this year and now it is the turn of the
defence secretaries.
The Indian delegation for the talks, the 12th in the series, will
also include Special Secretary R.K. Mathur, Director-General
Military Operations Lt. Gen. A.M. Verma and the Surveyor General,
S. Subba Rao.
The other members of the Pakistani delegation are Maj.Gen. Ashfaq
Nadeem Ahmed, Maj.Gen. Munwar Ahmed Solehri and Maj.Gen. (retired)
Mir Haider Ali Khan.
This is the second time in a month that service personnel from
Pakistan will engage with interlocutors from India. The Pakistani
delegation for the Sir Creek talks also included service personnel
from the navy.
The defence secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan on
Siachen began in 1985 following discussions between then prime
minister Rajiv Gandhi and then Pakistani president Gen. Zia-ul-Haq
in Oman and New Delhi.
The talks became a part of the composite dialogue with Pakistan on
all issues, including Kashmir, from the eighth round in August
2004 in New Delhi.
Siachen, which became a bone of contention between India and
Pakistan in 1984, was visited by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh in June 2005 and since then, he has been keen to convert the
glacial heights into "a mountain of peace".
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