India, Pakistan Hold Talks Without Setting Date for Next SummitSenior Indian and Pakistani officials met in Colombo on Friday, August 10 on the sidelines of the Foreign Secretaries Meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), but no date has been set for the next summit meeting.Indian Foreign Secretary Chokila Iyer and her Pakistani counterpart Inamul Haq said their meeting was a continuation of a process which started at a failed summit meeting between Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in Agra of India last month. They said the two countries were still trying to set a date for the next summit meeting between their leaders. Haq said that the meeting with his Indian counterpart was positive. The SAARC summit meeting which scheduled to be held in November 1999 has been postponed due to the dispute between Pakistan and India following the change of power in Pakistan. SAARC, which groups Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, held its last summit in July 1998 in Colombo. |
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