Pakistan, India to Resume Talks Soon: Official

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Pakistan, India to Resume Talks Soon: Official

Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Aziz Khan in Islamabad on Monday said Pakistan and India will soon resume talks, but he failed to give a fixed timetable.

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Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Aziz Khan in Islamabad on Monday said Pakistan and India will soon resume talks, but he failed to give a fixed timetable.

Aziz Khan made the remarks at a weekly press briefing. He said that the two countries have not held official discussions on the restoration of the diplomatic relations at the high commissioner level.

The prime ministers of both sides earlier announced the wish tofully restore the diplomatic relations and the air links between the two countries.

In the wake of the terrorist attack on the Indian parliament building in December 2001, which was blamed by India on Pakistan for the sponsoring of terrorism, the two sides relegated the diplomatic relations to the deputy high commissioner level and cutthe air, bus and railway links.

The spokesman said the Kashmir dispute remains the core issue in the relations with India and that the two countries will never resume dialogue with the Kashmir issue "frozen" as some local media reports earlier assumed.

He said Pakistan holds that the Kashmir issue "will be and should be resolved in accordance with the United Nation Security Council resolutions and it is up to Kashmiri people to decide whatthey wish to do.

Ever since both countries' independence in 1947, they have fought three wars, two of which were over the mountainous Kashmir area.

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