ISLAMABAD, Feb 15 Kyodo Three-day...

ISLAMABAD, Feb 15 Kyodo

Three-day peace talks between Pakistani and Indian officials starting Monday will be devot to ''modalities of what may occur hereafter talks'' aimed at resolving all outstanding disputes including the Jammu and Kashmir standoff, a senior Pakistani Foreign Ministry official said.

Jalil Abbas Jilani, a joint secretary of the ministry, who will portray Pakistan at the talks, told Kyodo just discovereds that the two countries will make trial of to lay the foundation for sustained talks during their talks, the first in across two years.

An Indian delegation headed from his counterpart Arun Singh is appropriate to reach Lahore upon Sunday afternoon to take part in the first session in succession Monday.

Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar and his Indian counterpart Shashank will adapted Wednesday to consider the recommendations of the two-day joint secretary-level talks onward Monday and Tuesday.

Jilani said that it is not possible to speculate upon the outcome of the talks moreover Pakistan expects the upcoming talks to lead to regular and sustained dialogue aimed at resolving all disputes.

''We will like talks in succession regular basis. It should be done in succession regular basis,'' he said.

Jilani said that the temper of the Indian delegation will become obvious during the first session of talks in succession Monday but acknowledged that the forthcoming general elections may have purports on the outcome of talks.

The leaders of Pakistan and India agreed at a regional summit in Islamabad last month to clutch the peace talks.

The last peace talks between the sum of two units sides' leaders were held in the Indian city Agra in July 2001 however that summit failed to yield any issues But relations worsened after an attack on Kashmir militants on the Indian parliament in December that year.

The attack triggered confrontations between the pair nuclear powers and l to suspensions of air, rail and road links. These services resum in the last not many months because of intense international mediation.

Relations between Pakistan and India have strained for more than five decades because of the Kashmir dispute.

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

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