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Pakistan India to deal with disputes one by one NEW DELHI, Tuesday (ANI) Pakistan and India, striving to end decades of animosity, announced on Tuesday a series of talks covering points of conflict including the Siachen Glacier, a battlefield where more soldiers die from cold than enemy fire. Foreign ministers from both countries will meet in Islamabad during a South Asia regional conference that will be dominated by a thaw in relations between the two nuclear-armed rivals. The Indian foreign ministry issued a timetable for six sessions on specific issues to be addressed in the coming weeks by officials and experts from both sides. "We have now an agreed schedule of meetings between India and Pakistan on the remaining six subjects of the composite dialogue. As you know the meetings on two of the subjects were held in New Delhi we held a fortnight ago. First set of the dates July 28-29 on the Bullar Barage and the Tulbul navigation project, these talks will be held in Islamabad. Second meeting August 3 and 4 will be on promotion of friendly exchanges and will be held in New Delhi. Talks on Siachen will be held on August 5 and 6 in New Delhi. Talks on Sir Creek August 6 and 7 also in New Delhi. The next set of talks will be on terrorism and drug trafficking August 10-11 in Islamabad and then on economic and commercial co-operation, August 11-12 in Islamabad," Navtej Sarna, foreign ministry spokesman, told reporters. The first session, in Islamabad on July 28-29, will focus on a dispute arising from Pakistani fears that Indian plans to build an artificial bar across the Jhelum river in Kashmir will impact the flow into its territory. Good Indo-Pak ties not precondition for SAARC cooperation Meanwhile asserting its commitment to take forward the Indo-Pak composite dialogue process, India said it was important to have good relations between the two countries but it could not be a pre-condition for cooperation among SAARC countries. External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh said "I shall do my best to use this oppurtunity to contribute further to creating an even better climate for taking forward our composite dialogue process". |
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