Indo-Pak foreign secretaries to resume dialogue process on September 26September 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet on September 26 followed by foreign ministers' level talks on September 27 in New York, resuming the dialogue process on the sidelines of UN General Assembly session. Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir on Monday confirmed that a meeting with his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao would be held on September 26 in New York.
Pakistani, Indian foreign secretaries to meet Sep 26September 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.
Indo-Pak Foreign Secy level talks in September: Pak FOAugust 29th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary level talks will be held in mid September in New York, the Pakistan Foreign Office has said. According to sources, India Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao will meet her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir on the margins of the 64th UN General Assembly.
Qureshi says only dialogue can improve Indo-Pak relationsAugust 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.
India, Pakistan foreign secretaries to meet in SeptemberAugust 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.
Neither India nor Pakistan faintly close to solve Kashmir issue: US diplomatJuly 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A former American diplomat believes that neither New Delhi nor Islamabad is anywhere near to solving the Kashmir issue. "Neither government is near a breakthrough on Kashmir," said Teresita Schaffer, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia.
Indo-Pak Foreign Secy level talks to be held in AugustJuly 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.
'I am willing to come to India to talk,' says Pak FSJuly 15th, 2009 Sharm-el-SHEIKH - After his late night meeting with Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, which the two sides described as frank and detailed, Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Salman Basheer expressed regret that relations between the two South Asian neighbours had come to such a pass that they have to meet thousands of miles away here in Egypt. He said: "We would be happy to come to New Delhi, I have been there before and we would be happy to have the Indian side over at Islamabad."
Was that an invitation or a signal that the process of regular interactions between foreign secretaries, home secretaries, director generals of military intelligence will be back on track is anybody's guess.
India, Pakistan foreign secretaries talk, to meet again WednesdayJuly 15th, 2009 Sharm-el-SHEIKH - Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir, who met here late Tuesday, will meet once again Wednesday before the prime ministers of the two countries hold talks, official sources said. Holding out the possibility that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani would perhaps meet the press together after their talks Thursday morning, sources here said that the two foreign secretaries held one-on-one discussions for 90 minutes.
Pak's 'unnecessary excitement' may delay its 'cherished' goal of French nuclear dealJuly 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - It is highly unlikely that Pakistan and France would ink a bilateral civil nuclear deal by the end of the year as was being claimed by diplomatic circles here. According to sources, the 'unnecessary excitement' showed by Pakistani ruling circles regarding the deal may delay country's objective of entering a nuclear deal with France much like the Indo-US nuclear pact.
Gilani to meet Manmohan on sidelines of NAM summit on July 16 : Pak FOJuly 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani would meet Dr. Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt on July 16, the Pakistan Foreign Office has said.
Meeting with India's foreign minister positive: PakistanJune 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.
Pakistani, Indian foreign ministers, top diplomats to meet on G8 sidelines?June 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Will the foreign ministers and the foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India meet separately on the sidelines of a G8 conclave beginning at Trieste, Italy, Thursday?
Media reports Tuesday suggested the two meetings could take place. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is expected to meet his Indian counterpart S.M.
Pakistani, Indian foreign secretaries to meet on G8 sidelines?June 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Will the Pakistani and Indian foreign secretaries meet on the sidelines of the G8 summit beginning in Trieste, Italy, Thursday?
A media report Tuesday suggested this could be possible. Hectic efforts are continuing for setting up a date and venue for a meeting between Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and his Indian counterpart Shivshankar Menon before the six-day Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, starting on July 11, Mariana Baabar wrote in The News.
India, Pakistan foreign secretaries to meetJune 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.