ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, the first women foreign minister of Pakistan, will leave for New Delhi on Tuesday to attend Pakistan-India dialogue.
Dialogues between Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and her Indian Counterpart S. M. Krishna would be held in New Delhi on 27th and both the foreign ministers would take account of the progress, which has already been made in the dialogue process during the meetings of secretaries of foreign affairs, trade, defence and interior.
Meanwhile Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir left here for New Delhi on Monday to attend the foreign secretaries meeting which will be held on Tuesday (tomorrow) prior to the meeting of the two foreign ministers to finalise the agenda for them.
Foreign Office officials told APP that Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar during her visit to New Delhi will discuss ways to make the peace process between the two countries more result-oriented and discuss all the outstanding issues between the two countries including the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir.
At a recent meeting with the Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal in Islamabad Ms. Khar expressed satisfaction at the resumption of the talks and urged to make the dialogue process "uninterrupted and uninterruptable", to help build trust between two countries.
The peace process between Pakistan and India was stalled by the 2008 Mumbai attacks. However the ice was broken following a meeting between prime ministers Yusuf Raza Gilani and Manmohan Singh at Sharm-el-Sheikh in 2009, followed by other meeting at Bhutanese capital Thimphu on the sidelines of a SAARC summit in April 2010.
Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar while talking to newsmen in Lahore on Sunday after coming from Indonesia, said, "Pak-India talks is a positive step and India is serious in composite dialogue process."
She said the priority of Pakistan in dialogue process with India is to set a future direction in the bilateral relationship.
Khar said, "Pakistan wants to look at the entire picture and at the root causes of problems during the talks with India."
She said it was the success of Pakistan to bring India back to the negotiating table.
Hina Rabbani Khar said Pakistan is pro-actively engaging with neighbouring countries including India, to achieve sustainable peace and stability in the region.
While commenting on the recent statement of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to India, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said Pakistan is a sovereign state and it would not accept hegemony of any country in the region.
"Pakistan's role in the region is by no means inferior to India", she said.
Hina Rabbani Khar said the outstanding issues with India could not be settled overnight but continued dialogue process is the only solution to these problems.
The two foreign ministers will approve the decision taken by the foreign secretaries to open two more points for trade through Line of Control.
Terrorism and confidence building measures will be the main focus of talks between the two foreign ministers.
Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011
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