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Pakistan and India Ready for Talks After Landmark Year in Bilateral Relations

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Pakistan and India Ready for Talks After Landmark Year in Bilateral Relations

India and Pakistan are preparing for their third round of peace talks in just over a year.The summit, scheduled for January 17 in New Delhi, is expected to focus on the most difficult of issues: the long-running dispute over Kashmir. Landmark cooperation between the nuclear-armed rivals over the past year has leaders on both sides hopeful as they contemplate the new talks.

Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasheem Aslam says her government is cautiously optimistic about this month’s summit with India.

“Naturally we are dealing with some complex issues, and expectations may be that we would be able to move very quickly, and of course we would like to see that,” she said.

The central issue is the region of Kashmir, divided for more than 50 years but still claimed in its entirety by both countries. Twice, India and Pakistan have gone to war over the disputed Himalayan region, and until a cease-fire was declared in 2003, their armies used to trade fire regularly across the heavily guarded “Line of Control,” the de facto border between the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled portions.

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