Indo-Pak foreign secretaries to resume dialogue process on September 26

September 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK - The resumption of the subcontinental composite dialogue is in the best interests of the region, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has said. At a meeting with former US president Bill Clinton here Monday, Zardari also reiterated that Pakistan was determined to prevent its territory from being used against any other country, APP reported.

September 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Hoping to resume the stalled peace process and discuss "the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir", Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said Monday that he would meet his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao in New York Sep 26. The meeting of the two foreign secretaries will be followed by talks between India's External Affairs Minister S.M.

August 6th, 2009 KARACHI - A United Nations (UN) commission probing the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto intends to meet former President Pervez Musharraf as part of investigations into the case, the Foreign Office (FO) has said. FO spokesman Abdul Basit told reporters that he was unaware if the UN team had already approached Musharraf.

August 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that dialogue is the only way to improve Indo-Pak relations, and added that Pakistan is committed to engaging India in a composite dialogue to resolve all issues. "We have to engage to resolve all issues," the Daily Times quoted him, as saying.

August 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will hold talks in New York in September when the foreign ministers of both countries attend the United Nations General Assembly session. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said he would like the foreign secretaries of the two countries to meet as soon as possible.

July 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan are expected to meet again next month to set up the agenda for the scheduled talks between the Foreign Ministers of both countries on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. The UN General Assembly is scheduled to be held in mid-September, so it is pertinent that the Foreign Secretaries of both India and Pakistan would meet before that, sources said.

June 26th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi Friday termed as positive his meeting with his Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna in Italy, saying all issues were discussed in a cordial and friendly atmosphere.

June 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has said that it 'seriously' wants to resume the stalled peace process with India, to resolve the long pending issues, including that of Kashmir. Addressing a weekly briefing, Foreign Office spokesman, Abdul Basit, said Islamabad wanted a result-oriented dialogue with New Delhi to resolve all outstanding issues between the two neighbours.

June 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg finally broke the ice seven months after the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan's foreign office said Thursday, adding Islamabad wanted the resumption of the sub-continental dialogue process. "Finally the ice has been broken," Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said at his weekly media briefing here.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon today ruled out resumption of dialogue with Pakistan after the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari, which lasted for 40 minutes. Talking to reporters after the meeting between two leaders, Menon said India had conveyed its expectations to Pakistan vis a vis terror and 26/11 probe, it did not discuss resuming the talks between the two countries.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in the next few weeks and review Islamabad's actions against terrorism before taking a decision on resuming their "composite dialogue", it was decided during talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari here Tuesday. The two leaders agreed to a meeting between their foreign secretaries to discuss the "primary issue" of terrorism and report to them before the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Egyptian town of Sharm-al-Sheikh in mid-July, officials said.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Leaders of India and Pakistan Tuesday asked their foreign secretaries to meet within a month with the sole agenda of reviewing the primary issue of cross- border terrorism that has plagued their ties. This was decided during the 40-minute talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari -- most of it alone -- their first since the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.

April 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Thursday urged India to resume the sub-continental composite dialogue process that has been frozen in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, a suggestion New Delhi has repeatedly and flatly rejected. 'It will be better to resume the dialogue process as it will be better for the region and for the progress and prosperity of the people,' Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said during his weekly briefing here.

April 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan today asked India to continue the composite dialogue process, which was stalled in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks. Addressing a weekly briefing here, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit emphasised the need that efforts should be made for the resumption of composite dialogue process, as it is the only way forward to resolve the bilateral issues, instead of giving statements in the media.

January 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Monday that the global community should ask India to resume the dialogue process with Islamabad, Geo TV reported. He made the remarks during a briefing to foreign envoys at the foreign ministry.