Foreign secretary level talks between Pakistan and India are not conditional to the Pathankot airbase attack probe, Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawaly said on Monday.
The Indian envoy also stated that India and Pakistan are in constant contact to hold foreign secretary level talks in the near future.
“I cannot give any particular date for the secretary level talks, but foreign secretaries from both countries are in constant contact,” explained the Indian envoy.
After a series of high-level contacts starting with an ice-breaking meeting in Paris between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and climaxing with the latter’s surprise trip to Lahore, Pakistan and India had agreed in December to resume the bilateral dialogue after a hiatus of two years because of tensions along the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary.
The resumed dialogue was named Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue and it was agreed that the foreign secretaries of the two countries would meet on Jan 15 to decide about the timetable and modalities of the process.
With the attack on Pathankot, India lost seven security personnel in the strike and blamed the Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) for it. It linked the resumption of the foreign secretaries’ meeting to action by Pakistan against JeM.
Later, in a high-level meeting, presided by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and attended by General Raheel Sharif, reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to cooperate with India on the Pathankot incident.
Pathankot was a false flag event, no one died. India RAW at work with the zionist masters!
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