The announcement is likely to be welcomed by the international community which had been pushing both countries back to the negotiating table.

India and Pakistan agreed on Thursday to resume peace talks suspended more than two years ago after Mumbai attacks that Killed 166 people.

In simultaneous statements issued in New Delhi and Islamabad, the nuclear-armed neighbors and long-time rivals announced they had "agreed to resume dialogue on all issues."
They also said that Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi would visit India by July to "review progress" in the dialogue process.

The announcement is likely to be welcomed by the international community which had been pushing both countries back to the negotiating table to help ease tensions in an already volatile region.
The decisi
on to resume talks was taken at a meeting between Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in the Bhutanese capital Thimphu on Sunday.
Prior to the foreign ministers' meeting, secretary-level talks will be held on a wide-range of issues, including the vexed territorial dispute over Kashmir.

They will also discuss counter-terrorism topics such as progress on the trial in Pakistan of seven men charged over the Mumbai attacks which India blame Pakistani militants for.
Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said the talks would begin "in the coming weeks."

"We have to pick up the threads again," Prakash told AFP news agency, adding "This is still a step-by-step approach which is necessary to narrow the trust deficit."