Pakistan, India to resume talks

Islamabad: The halted peace process between Pakistan and India was challenged by the meeting today between President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

The meeting between Zardari and Singh on the fringes of the Summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is the first between head of states of these two countries since the bloody terrorist attack against Mumbai. After the encounter Pakistani Foreign Minister Mahmoud Qureshi declared to his country's news agency APP that both parts agreed to hold a meeting between their respective foreign affairs secretaries in the near future on a mutually agreed date.

In the meeting Pakistan told India about the steps taken against terrorism and committed to paying attention to New Delhi concerns in that sense, said Qureshi.

At the beginning of the meeting Singh showed pleasure for his meeting with Zardari although he said the Pakistani territory must not be used for terrorist acts against India, reported sources involved in the event.

He urged Zardari to adopt strong and believable measures against terrorist groups to create suitable conditions for resumption of bilateral peace talks. Islamabad, Prensa Latina