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  • Aug 4th, 2004
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Pakistan and India will hold two-day parleys on Siachen as part of composite dialogue process between the two countries here from Thursday, August 5.

An eight-member Pakistan delegation, headed by Defence Secretary Lieutenant General Hamid Nawaz Khan (Retd), arrives here on Wednesday for the talks with their Indian counterparts.

Another high-power Pakistani delegation headed by Rear Admiral Ahsan-ul-Haq Chaudhry, Additional Secretary, Defence Division, would reach New Delhi to hold discussions on Sir Creek on August 6-7.

Talks on terrorism and drug trafficking are scheduled to be held on August 10-11 between the two countries in Islamabad, which would be followed by talks at the level of commerce secretaries on economic and commercial co-operation on August 11-12.

The composite dialogue process would be reviewed at a two-day meeting between Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri and his counterpart Natwar Singh in New Delhi here on September 5-6.

The foreign ministers' talks would be preceded by a meeting between the foreign secretaries of both the countries.

Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2004


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