NEW DELHI: India hinted Thursday at restarting peace talks with rival and neighbour Pakistan that stalled over clashes earlier this year in the disputed region of Kashmir.
Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh said India would be "picking up the threads" of peace talks with the Pakistani government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, which was elected in May.
"There is a new government in Pakistan now. We will be picking up the threads from where we left off with the old government," Singh told reporters in New Delhi on her first day in the job.
Singh however said that any dialogue with Islamabad "presupposes an environment free of violence and of terror".
New Delhi broke off peace talks with Islamabad after gunmen killed 166 people in Mumbai in 2008, which India blamed on Pakistani militants. Talks resumed in 2011 with two rounds that focused largely on trade and visas.
Sharif has called for closer rapprochement with India since winning the general elections.
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