India, Pakistan to Hold Talks Beginning Feb. 16

India and Pakistan are scheduled to hold three days of talks in Islamabad starting Feb. 16, as part of a planned peace dialogue between the nuclear rivals that was announced earlier this month, officials said today (see GSN, Jan. 21).

According to an Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman, the first two days of the talks will be at the “joint secretary level.” The third day will involve a meeting of the Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries, the spokesman said. The details of the talks were confirmed in separate remarks by a Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman (BBC News, Jan. 27).

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