India, Pakistan Hold High-Level Talks
LIAN PEK, CNN ANCHOR: India and Pakistan have held their first high- level talks since last month's Agras summit. Foreign ministries of the two countries met today on the sideline of the South Asian Regional Cooperation Forum, in Sri Lanka. Kasra Naji reports.</s>KASRA NAJI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The first high-level contact since the collapse of the India-Pakistan summit last month produced no progress at all. Both sides said afterwards there was a need to continue with the process of dialogue, but they failed to fix a date for next summit in Islamabad, although the Pakistani said it was ready to receive Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee anytime. There's been a spurt in violence in Kashmir since the summit, and that has created extremely negative sentiments in India, said the Indian foreign secretary late. Pakistan rejects the charge it has a hand in the violence in the Indian-controlled Kashmir. The Indian side didn't commit itself to a meeting of the leaders of two countries in New York during the UN General Assembly next month. The latest meeting was held on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional Corporation, or SAARC, a regional grouping made hostage to the troubled relations within its biggest members, India and Pakistan -- a reminder how the feud between the two nuclear neighbors is affecting the whole region and beyond. Kasra Naji, CNN, Colombo.