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Pakistan’s foreign office announced in Islamabad on Monday afternoon that Sartaj Aziz, foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, will meet with all SAARC foreign ministers on the sidelines of the ministerial summit on March 17. The official reason was to extend a “formal invitation” to the eight South Asian leaders for the 19th SAARC summit to hosted by Islamabad in November.
Official Indian sources said that after Pakistan sought a meeting between Aziz and external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, India readily agreed. The agenda of the meeting would certainly go beyond the invitation, the sources admitted, with both sides expected to raise their pet issues
It was Aziz and Swaraj’s meeting in Islamabad during the Heart of Asia conference last December which began the process for both countries to re-engage formally in a dialogue process. Of course, that meeting too was a direct result of the elaborate shadow play between the two governments which began with the ‘chance encounter’ between Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif at the leaders’ lounge during the Paris climate change talks on November 30, which was then followed by discussions in Bangkok between the national security advisers of the two countries on December 6 the Indian and Pakistan foreign secretaries are not likely to hold a separate meeting of their own on the sidelines at Pokhara – mainly because there is too much political baggage riding on their much postponed discussions. As per New Delhi’s stance, the foreign secretaries will only meet to decide on the calendar for the launch of a new ‘comprehensive bilateral dialogue’ after Pakistan is seen to have taken visible action to hunt down the perpetrators of the January 2 Pathankot Air base attack which left 7 soldiers dead. A visit of the Special Investigation Team from Pakistan might well provide the Modi government
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