Islamabad, February 12: Pakistan today announced that the Foreign Secretary-level talks with India will be held in New Delhi on February 25 during which it will raise all “core issues” and the need for their “expeditious resolution through resumption of Composite Dialogue”.
“It was decided that foreign secretary level talks between the two countries would be held on February 25 in New Delhi,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement here.
A decision on holding the Foreign Secretary-level talks in New Delhi on February 25 was taken at a meeting between Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi at the PM’s house here this morning.
Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao had invited her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir to New Delhi for talks.
India says the talks would be focussed on terrorism, but would be ready to discuss any other issue that Pakistan raises.
–Agencies