Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan agreed on Saturday to inform each other formally about any missile tests. The two also agreed to start a direct phone link between top bureaucrats in their Foreign Ministries by next month, Reuters reported. "The result of the talks is the agreement on the pre-notification of the ballistic missile tests," Meera Shankar, a senior Foreign Ministry official who led India at the talks, told reporters after the meeting. The two-day talks were part of a tentative peace process that began in January 2004 and led to improved ties between the two countries.
