Pakistan, India peace talks delayed till Christmas
AFP, Islamabad
Pakistan on Wednesday accepted an Indian request to delay the foreign secretary-level talks between the nuclear rivals on the Kashmir dispute until after Christmas, the foreign office here said. The meeting between Pakistani foreign secretary Riaz Khokhar and his Indian counterpart Shyam Saran to discuss the issues of peace and security and Jammu and Kashmir will now be held on December 27-28, a foreign ministry statement said. "The re-scheduling of the dates has been done at the request of the government of India," it said. The statement came two days after foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan announced here that the top foreign ministry officials of Pakistan and India had agreed to meet in Islamabad on December 23-24 to review progress on the peace process.
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