India Offers to Resume Bilateral Talks With Pakistan
VOA News 04 February 2010
India is proposing resuming high-level talks with Pakistan for the first time since peace negotiations between the two nuclear powers were suspended following the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks.
The Press Trust of India says the Indian officials are seeking talks between foreign secretaries on issues that include terrorism.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says his country welcomes the offer to resume bilateral talks.
India and Pakistan launched meetings in 2004 to address issues including the disputed border region of Kashmir. However, the contacts stalled after the siege in Mumbai killed more than 160 people. India blames Pakistan-based militants for the Mumbai raid.
Word of the possible resumption of talks comes ahead of a visit to Pakistan by India's home minister. Palaniappan Chidambaram is scheduled to attend a two-day regional security meeting that begins February 26.
He will be the first high-level Indian official to visit Pakistan since the Mumbai attacks.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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