Pakistan, India to resume high-level talks

Pakistan and India have agreed to revive the high-level bilateral talks, suspended following the Mumbai bomb attacks in July, the Pakistani foreign ministry said Tuesday.

"The governments of Pakistan and India have agreed to hold the Foreign Secretary-Level Review Meeting of the third round of the composite dialogue on Nov. 14-15, 2006 in New Delhi," said a Pakistani foreign ministry statement.

However, the brief statement did not offer more details.

The meeting of the senior officials would review progress on different issues including Kashmir.

Foreign ministers of the two countries are to meet after the foreign secretary-level talks to discuss options for the next round of dialogue.

India suspended the talks with Pakistan after seven train blasts in Mumbai, killing some 180 people in July.

India blamed Pakistan's intelligence agency Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) of helping the suspects to carry out the blasts but Pakistan denied the charges.

Source: Xinhua