|
Home>News Center>World | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Pakistan, India to hold talks Friday on reducing nuclear risk
Pakistani officials were set to leave for New Delhi Thursday for talks with India on reducing the risk of a nuclear conflict and to share information on missile tests and military exercises, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said, AP reported. The two-day nuclear talks between the South Asian rivals were scheduled to begin Friday in New Delhi, the ministry spokesman, Mohammed Naeem Khan, said. He said experts and officials from the two sides will also meet on August 8 for talks on confidence-building measures. Pakistan has said the purpose of these talks is to discuss ways of avoiding an arms race, to share information on plans for missile tests and military exercises, as well as to set up a hot line among Foreign Ministry officials on both sides to prevent misunderstandings that could lead to nuclear war. Khan said Pakistan will use the talks to ask New Delhi to reduce troop levels in Kashmir, a Himalayan region which is split between India and Pakistan and has been at the heart of a rivalry since the two countries were carved out of British-ruled India in 1947. Pakistan and India claim the Muslim-majority Himalayan region in its entirety, and have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir. However, the two sides initiated peace talks in 2004, and have held two rounds of nuclear discussions.
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
