Pakistan and India have agreed to hold the stalled Foreign Secretary Level Review Meeting of the third round of the composite dialogue on November 14-15, 2006 in New Delhi, Foreign Ministry said here on Tuesday.
Diplomatic sources told Business Recorder that Foreign Secretary Riaz Ahmad Khan will hold wide ranging talks with his Indian counterpart Shivshankar Menon to review the third round of the composite dialogue from January to July that included Kashmir, confidence building measures, Siachen, Sir creek, trade and travel etc.
Besides discussing a joint anti-terror mechanism for intelligence sharing and preventing terrorism in Pakistan and India, the two foreign secretaries are also expected to approve schedule for a fourth round talks between the working groups.
The foreign secretaries' meeting was originally due on July 21-22 in New Delhi but was called off by India after serial bomb blasts in Mumbai on July 11.
Subsequently President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed at a breakthrough meeting in Havana on September 10 to resume foreign secretary level talks focusing on Kashmir and also set up a joint anti-terror mechanism.
Pakistan and India have been holding a series of meetings since 2004 to resolve their outstanding issues including the Kashmir dispute after more than a year long deployment of their 1.5 million troops on the border, which could have triggered off a full scale war between the two nuclear rivals any time.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri told newsmen on Monday that though the progress of the peace process has been slow, yet the two countries have covered a long distance since December 2003.