India and Pakistan will hold talks here on Tuesday to discuss the first joint survey of Sir Creek - a strip of marshlands on their frontier - to resolve a decades-old boundary dispute.
A Pakistani delegation will hold technical talks to carry forward discussions held in October, when two sides agreed on surveying the creek as a preliminary step towards finding a permanent solution.
The report of survey of marshlands located between India's Gujarat State and Pakistan's Sindh province is likely to be submitted at next round of talks under composite dialogue process in late January.
Though, the Sir Creek is not considered strategically significant, there is a dispute between the two countries over determination of maritime and territorial boundaries in this marshy area.
India is in favour of first determining maritime boundary and then moving to fix territorial boundary.
This issue has been discussed between India and Pakistan at technical and government levels several times.
The two neighbours have carried out a survey of horizontal line and identified many boundary pillars erected at Sir Creek well before 1947. The survey of entire creek now will provide a template for future negotiations for a settlement of the row.