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Foreign Secretaries to meet on November 14, 15

Nirupama Subramanian

To review third round of composite dialogue

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet on November 14 and 15 in New Delhi to review the third round of the composite dialogue process, the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.

Aside from reviewing the third round of the Secretary-level composite dialogue that ended in June, the Foreign Secretaries are likely to fix dates for the fourth round. Another likely issue they may take up is the setting up of the anti-terror joint institutional mechanism, which both countries agreed upon in Havana.

There is anticipation in Pakistan that India will present the evidence from Mumbai allegedly implicating its Inter-Services Intelligence in the July 11 train blasts.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri told journalists at an Iftar on Monday that the peace process had moved forward despite the complexity of the issues between the countries, and the recent statement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that New Delhi would never agree to a change of borders in Kashmir.

Pakistan would never accept the Line of Control dividing the State between the two countries, and the Kashmiris themselves would not accept a division of their State, Mr. Kasuri said, adding "something different is being discussed" by the backchannel negotiators.

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