Pakistani, Indian foreign secretaries to meet Sep 26

September 29th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - There is a strong possibility of the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers meeting on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Trinidad in late November, a media report Tuesday said. This would be a follow-up of the two-day talks between their foreign ministers and foreign secretaries in New York over the weekend, Dawn said, quoting diplomatic sources.

September 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.

September 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna will go to New York Sep 22 on a six-day visit to represent India at the UN General Assembly session and will also meet his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi there amid a growing chill in sub-continental ties.

September 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Talks between the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan-Nirupama Rao and Salman Bashir-are not going to be held in the forseeable future in the wake of the latest statements emerging from Islamabad with regard to the 26/11 probe and its less than acceptable reactions to the six dossiers provided to it by the Indian Government. According to sources, while the meeting between the Indian External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi will take place on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly later this month, any hopes of a limited dialogue taking place at lesser levels is remote.

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.

July 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.

July 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.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Egypt this month, with the issue of terrorism expected to dominate the discussions. Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told the media here that the core issue between the two sides would be "terrorism".

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 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistani High Commissioner Shahid Malik Tuesday met Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon here to decide on the dates for the proposed meeting of the foreign secretaries of the two countries. Even though there was no official word about the meeting, informed sources the foreign secretary's meeting may take place next week.

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.

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.

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.

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.