The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will hold preparatory talks in New Delhi Tuesday to firm up details of confidence-building measures and other trust-inducing initiatives that are expected to be announced by their foreign ministers the following day.
Accompanied by senior officials, Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir reached Indian on Monday evening.
Bashir would hold talks with his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao on a wide range of bilateral issues with a view to firming up the agenda for talks between External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar on Wednesday.
Khar, Pakistan’s first woman foreign minister and the youngest to occupy the post would arrive in New Delhi on Tuesday.
According to Indian media, Rao and Bashir, who will be meeting after a month, are expected to review the entire gamut of bilateral issues and firm up deliverables that will be unveiled by the foreign ministers on Wednesday.
