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Indo-Pak
Talks
·
On May 21,
2008 pushing
economic
diplomacy to
forefront,
India and
Pakistan
agreed to
jointly
combat
terrorism
and "to pick
a stake in
each others
economic
development"
and signed
pact on
release of
their
nationals
imprisoned
in either
country.
·
Pranab
Mukherjee
and his Paki
counterpart
Shah Mahmood
Qureshi
concluded
the fourth
round of the
Composite
Dialogue and
underlined
political
will and
determination
to resolve
all
outstanding
issues,
including JK
·
Both the
sides
reiterated
their
resolve to
strengthen
the
four-year-old
peace
process
between the
two sides.
Pakistan
called for a
"grand
reconciliation"
on the
Kashmir
issue and
said it was
open to
innovative
proposals on
the
decades-old
dispute.
Mission
IAS’2009
·
The two
countries
decided to
strengthen
their
anti-terror
mechanism
and
announced
that its
next meeting
will be held
in June
ahead of the
launch of
the fifth
round of the
Composite
Dialogue in
the middle
of July.
·
The two
sides agreed
on a set of
cross-Line
of Control (LoC)
CBMs that
will enhance
people-to-people
contact and
help to "build
on
convergences
and narrow
down
divergences
on Kashmir".
·
These
included an
increase in
the
frequency of
the
Muzaffarabad-Srinagar
and
Rawalkot-Poonch
bus services
from a
fortnightly
to a weekly
basis and to
finalise
modalities
for
intra-Kashmir
trade and
truck
services.
·
Ironically,
a day after
Islamabad
gave an
assurance
that it was
committed to
maintaining
ceasefire,
the Army
lodged a
strong
protest with
its
Pakistani
counterparts
over
unprovoked
cross-border
firing at a
forward post
in Poonch
sector in JK
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