In the years of the long lasting cold wars between India and Pakistan, meeting between their representatives at any level were too few, and the few were largely non-productive. But in the year 2004 the meetings have been many, too many according to some, and at vari- ous levels beginning from the top when President Musharraf met the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in Islamabad in the beginning of the year and set the ball rolling vigorously. The latest top-level meeting was between Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Dr Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. After the two governments had earlier divided the disputes for which solutions had to be sought and identified areas where cooperation had to be enlarged, the foreign secretaries of the two countries have been meeting from time to time as agreed and reviewing the progress of those committees and coming up with path-breakers where there had been disputes, except in Kashmir. The foreign secretaries are to meet again on December 27 and 28 to review the progress of the committees and show the light where that is needed.
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