India, Pakistan to resume comprehensive dialogue
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India and Pakistan have agreed to resume comprehensive dialogue suspended since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, said local TV reports Thursday.
The comprehensive dialogue, also known as composite dialogue, was suspended by India after 10 militants from Pakistan launched a bloody assault on India's financial capital Mumbai from Nov. 26 to 29, killing at least 170 people.
The decision to resume such talks was made by the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan, Nirupama Rao and Salman Bashir, in Thimphu, capital of Bhutan where they met last week, according to the reports by local TV channel Times Now and CNN_IBN News quoting unnamed official sources.
The talks will cover all issues including terrorism, peace and security in South Asia and Kashmir, according to the reports.
Pakistan Foreign Ministry said Thursday the two countries will resume talks on all issues.
India and Pakistan resumed dialogue at foreign secretarial level in February 2010, falling short of resuming full dialogue.
Pakistan Foreign Minister S.M. Quareshi will visit in India in July, as a return visit ty his Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna in July 2010.
TV reports quoted diplomatic sources as saying the defense ministers, home ministers and other key officials will resume talks once the comprehensive talks are resumed.
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