Islamabad January 27:
India is looking forward to receiving Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi for talks in the next couple of months and is "serious" about dialogue but wants Pakistan to take action against perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has said.
"No breakthrough is expected during this high-level meeting", which is likely to take place in the next two months, she said. But it would serve as a strong base to move ahead to establish a good relationship, said Rao, who met Pakistani journalists in New Delhi days before her meeting in Thimphu with her counterpart Salman Bashir on the margins of a SAARC committee conference there in early February. "I cannot promise you any breakthrough during FM-level talks, however, I'm sure things would move ahead," she was quoted as saying by Pakistani newspapers.
India is looking forward to receiving Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi for talks in the next couple of months and is "serious" about dialogue but wants Pakistan to take action against perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has said.
"No breakthrough is expected during this high-level meeting", which is likely to take place in the next two months, she said. But it would serve as a strong base to move ahead to establish a good relationship, said Rao, who met Pakistani journalists in New Delhi days before her meeting in Thimphu with her counterpart Salman Bashir on the margins of a SAARC committee conference there in early February. "I cannot promise you any breakthrough during FM-level talks, however, I'm sure things would move ahead," she was quoted as saying by Pakistani newspapers.
