Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan may finally meet in early February

Foreign Secretaries of neighbouring countries India and Pakistan could finally be meeting towards the end of first week or in the second week of February. They were earlier supposed to meet in Islamabad on January 15-16, but the meeting was postponed after the Pathankot terror strikes. The agenda of the meeting is to finalise the modalities for Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue.

Officials of both countries have kept in touch to reschedule the meeting, as confirmed by ET sources, keeping in mind the preoccupations of both Indian foreign secretary S Jaishankar and his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry.

"The two sides are in touch over the issue of the talks and dates would be announced after mutual agreement," said a Pakistani official. The meeting would prove that the terrorist act couldn’t halt the momentum for normalisation of ties that is being generated from both ends.

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