India, Pakistan hold first talks in 15 months

India and Pakistan began their first official talks since the Mumbai attacks, a meeting that is unlikely to lead to an immediate breakthrough but may help thaw relations.

Any progress made by the two nations’ foreign secretaries their top diplomats may also help Western efforts to stabilise Afghanistan, where India and Pakistan have long engaged in a proxy war for influence.

Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao met in a colonial mansion in a heavily guarded New Delhi neighbourhood that also houses the parliament and the presidential palace.

The two countries have to agree which subjects should be covered in the talks India wants to focus on terrorism while Pakistan eyes the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir that has been the cause of two of their three wars......... read more>>

India, Pakistan hold first talks in 15 months