External Affairs Minister S M Krishna will undertake a three-day visit to Pakistan from September 7 to review the second round of the bilateral dialogue process with his counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar.
Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal met Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani yesterday and informed him about the dates for Mr Krishna’s visit, diplomatic sources told PTI.
The dates for the visit were earlier suggested by the Foreign Office.
The Indian envoy and Mr Jilani also discussed bilateral issues, including preparations for Mr Krishna’s visit.
Mr Krishna will review the dialogue process, which resumed last year after a gap of over two years in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, during a meeting with Ms Khar on September 8, the sources said.
Following the review, Mr Krishna and Ms Khar are expected to prepare the framework for the third round of the resumed dialogue.
During his stay in Islamabad, Mr Krishna is expected to call on President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and some key political leaders, including PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and PML-Q leader Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain.
Following the resumption of the dialogue process, India and Pakistan have made significant progress in normalising trade relations.
Islamabad recently switched to a negative list regime for trade with Delhi, paving the way for giving India Most Favoured Nation-status by the beginning of next year.
If there is no hope of positive result then no need to form any diplomatic meeting.So before any spending on these kinds of meetings
results must be analyzed.Although healthy relation with neighbors is
always important for economic growth.
Beauty lies in the beholders perspective!And it's never late to
clear the perspective on the issues already piled up between India
and it's troubling neighbor.Relations build up through proper
actions not just by idle talks that has been happening quite often.
Once again two highlighted countries of the world had planned to meet and discuss their issues and trying to solve it. Earlier, they met in India and result was zero. Now again they are trying to show their result (ZERO)to rest of the world. I suggest stop spending hard money of the residents of India on these meaningless meetings and just think about to make strong economy of India. The prices of basic things are increasing like a bullet car. The Pak will always try to up its legs on India in eyes of other strong countries as showing they are keen to fight with terrorism but the result will different. Yesterday a bomb blast happened in Pak near Chinese office. Wat was dat? I suggest stop meeting with Pakistanis and think about high price of petrol, vegetables, dals.
Mr Krishna must meet Baluhistan separatists when in Islamabd to
reciprocate Ms Khar's gesture of meeting Kashmir separatists while in
Delhi.
Another completely pointless and meaningless meeting. Pakistan will demand more from India over kashmir and the Sir Creek issue, India will feebly demand that Pak does more to curb terror from its territory. Pak will make false promises,and the status quo will be maintained. The ISI and Pak military are probably already planning another 26/11.
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