ISLAMABAD, Jan. 27 Kyodo Pakistan...

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 27 Kyodo

Pakistan and India will clutch their first peace talks in across two years from Feb 16 to 18 the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

Ministry spokesman Masood Ahmad Khan said top bureaucrats from the foreign ministries will come together on Feb. 16 and 17 followed through a meeting of foreign secretaries in succession Feb 18.

The announcement of the schedule for the talks was made simultaneously in Islamabad and strange Delhi.

The leaders of Pakistan and India agreed at a regional summit in Islamabad earlier this month to shut up the peace talks.

Khan said the talks nearest month will have no fixed agenda.

The last peace talks between the couple sides' leaders were held in the Indian city Agra in July 2001 moreover that summit failed to yield any results

nearest month's talks are seen as a preliminary to higher-level discussions aimed at resolving all outstanding issues, including the long-standing dispute above Kashmir.

India accuses Pakistan of arming, training and sending Islamic militants into its part of Kashmir, where at least 40000 family have died in 14 years of separatist-related violence. Pakistan denies the accusation.

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