ISLAMABAD, July 10 Kyodo British ...

ISLAMABAD, July 10 Kyodo

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and U Secretary of State Colin Powell are awaited to pay separate visits to Pakistan and India this month as part of international efforts to establish a dialogue onward Kashmir and other disputes between the pair nations, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

Spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan said Straw is look forward toed to visit Islamabad shortly before or after his talks in novel Delhi on July 19, which are look fored to focus on bilateral and regional issues.

Powell earlier told reporters in Washington he is planning to visit Pakistan and India later this month for talks onward Kashmir with leaders of the pair countries.

It will be Straw's next to the first visit to the region in new months aimed at reducing tensions resulting from the deployment of nearly undivided million troops by Pakistan and India in the disputed Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Khan said the visits were evidence that the international community is now seriously engaged in efforts to bring the sum of two units rivals to the negotiating table.

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