The foreign secretary-level review of the Fourth Round of Pakistan-India composite dialogue will be held on May 20, 2008, in Islamabad to monitor the progress made in normalising the relations between the two countries so far.
The foreign minister of Pakistan and the external affairs minister of India will then review the progress made in the Fourth Round of composite dialogue on May 21, 2008, in Islamabad.
Earlier, President Pervez Musharraf and then Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee initiated these talks in January 2004 to resolve Kashmir and other outstanding dispute, which have strained relations between the two countries. In 2002, India and Pakistan were at the brink of war when Indian Parliament was allegedly attacked by militants operating from the other side of the border which aggravated tension between the two countries.
Pakistan and India had fought four war over the disputed Kashmir Valley which is a Muslim-dominated area and as per rules of partition and afterwards UN Resolutions on Kashmir, the Valley should have been made part of Pakistan after a plebiscite. The composite dialogue process has achieved much in terms of sorting out minor disputes and improving economic relations along with people to people contacts, but Kashmir still remains a bone of contention between the two countries and un-resolved issues contained in the agenda of composite dialogue.
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