ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) ? The top diplomats of Pakistan and India will meet in Islamabad next week to discuss Kashmir along with peace and security issues, Pakistan's foreign ministry said on Friday.
The two countries in February announced the resumption of peace talks after a meeting between Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao in the Bhutanese capital Thimphu.
"Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in Islamabad on June 23 and 24," foreign ministry spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua said in a statement.
They will discuss "peace and security, including confidence building measures, Jammu and Kashmir, and promotion of friendly exchanges", the statement said.
The rival South Asian states suspended talks more than two years ago after Islamist gunmen killed 166 people in Mumbai.
The international community has been pushing the two sides to get back to the negotiating table to help ease tensions in an already volatile region.
Relations between India and Pakistan, which have fought three wars since the subcontinent was partitioned in 1947, have been plagued by border and resource disputes, and accusations of Pakistani militant activity against India.
Two of the three wars were over the disputed Kashmir region, where Kashmiri militants have been fighting New Delhi's rule for two decades in an insurgency that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
Islamabad and New Delhi embarked on a formal peace dialogue in 2004, which continued until the rupture caused by the Mumbai attacks.
They began to explore a resumption of structured talks last year, and Indian Premier Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani met in Thimphu in April 2010.
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