India will be holding far-reaching consultations with Pakistan during foreign secretary S Jaishankar’s visit to Islamabad on Tuesday as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘SAARC Yatra’ initiative.
The visit is widely seen as thawing of bilateral ties between the two nuclear-armed neighbours after a span of nine months.
While Prime Minister Modi and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif started off on a positive note in May last year, the foreign secretary level talks were cancelled in August. This was after Pakistan chose to seek the viewpoint of Kashmiri separatist leaders a day before the talks were scheduled to take place.
India had then maintained it would not entertain such acts by Pakistan.