Indian, Pakistani PMs agree on more dialogues

EGYPT: Indian and Pakistani prime ministers on Thursday agreed to continue bilateral dialogues during a brief meeting on the fringes of the 15th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

The meeting between Manmohan Singh of India and Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan was widely expected to raise hopes of relaunching the stalled peace talks between the two South Asian arch-foes.

It was still unclear when the peace talks would resume, but a joint statement released after the meeting said the two countries’ foreign secretaries, India’s Shiv Shankar Menon and Pakistan’s Salman Bashir, would “meet as often as necessary” in the future. Xinhua