Pakistan agreed to a change in the format for future talks with India in return for New Delhi’s consent to resume broad-based engagement with it, diplomatic sources said today.
This process of give and take was behind the breakthrough in yesterday’s meeting between Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on the margins of the SAARC summit in Bhutan, the sources told PTI. There were several indications during Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s news conference today that Pakistan was amenable to accepting a format other than the composite dialogue for future talks with India.
