Pakistan and India will hold two-day talks on Siachen Glacier issue as part of the composite dialogue process between the two countries in New Delhi on Thursday (August 5), officials said. An eight-member Pakistan delegation headed by Defense Secretary Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Nawaz Khan has left for New Delhi talks with their Indian counterparts. Another high-power Pakistani delegation headed by Rear Admiral Ahsanul Haq Chaudhry, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Defense, would reach New Delhi to hold discussions on Sir Creek on August 6-7. Talks on terrorism and drug trafficking are slated to be held on August 10-11 between the two countries in Islamabad, which would be followed by parleys at the level of Commerce Secretaries on Economic and Commercial Cooperation on August 11-12. Officials said the composite dialogue process would be reviewed at a two-day meeting between Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri and his counterpart Natwar Singh in New Delhi on September 5-6. A meeting between the foreign secretaries of the two countries would precede the foreign ministers' parleys.
