India and Pakistan will resume formal talks on the peace process which had been suspended after the attacks in Bombay in late 2008. The announcement was made Thursday, February 10, the NDTV news channel, citing sources within the Indian government. According to the channel, the decision was taken at a meeting Sunday between the Indian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nirupama Rao and his Pakistani counterpart, Salman Bashir on the sidelines of a regional summit in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan.
New Delhi has suspended peace talks with Islamabad begun in 2004 (including proposals on Kashmir) after the attacks in Bombay in November 2008 which killed 166 people but the two countries resumed in 2010 and making contacts. The last meeting between the two foreign ministers, Shah Mehmood Qureshi and his Indian counterpart, SM Krishna, dated July 2010 in Islamabad.
It was then the third high level meeting in six months thaw encouraged by the United States. "We must pick up the thread," he said Thursday, refusing to be confirmed if it were a full-fledged resumption of the peace process, known as the "composite dialogue", suspended after attacks of 2008.
"There is always a step by step approach is necessary to reduce the lack of confidence," he said. Delhi accuses Islamabad of not continually fight with sufficient force the extremist groups operating in its territory, including that of India to judge the origin of the attacks in Bombay, the movement Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, both countries now have nuclear weapons, had two armed conflicts over Kashmir. The rebellion in the Indian part of Kashmir against the authority of New Delhi has claimed tens of thousands of deaths over the past twenty years. 
New Delhi has suspended peace talks with Islamabad begun in 2004 (including proposals on Kashmir) after the attacks in Bombay in November 2008 which killed 166 people but the two countries resumed in 2010 and making contacts. The last meeting between the two foreign ministers, Shah Mehmood Qureshi and his Indian counterpart, SM Krishna, dated July 2010 in Islamabad.
It was then the third high level meeting in six months thaw encouraged by the United States. "We must pick up the thread," he said Thursday, refusing to be confirmed if it were a full-fledged resumption of the peace process, known as the "composite dialogue", suspended after attacks of 2008.
"There is always a step by step approach is necessary to reduce the lack of confidence," he said. Delhi accuses Islamabad of not continually fight with sufficient force the extremist groups operating in its territory, including that of India to judge the origin of the attacks in Bombay, the movement Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, both countries now have nuclear weapons, had two armed conflicts over Kashmir. The rebellion in the Indian part of Kashmir against the authority of New Delhi has claimed tens of thousands of deaths over the past twenty years.
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