Indian and Pakistani officials meet for peace talks

Indian and Pakistani officials today held extensive talks on terrorism and Kashmir - the two key issues that have fuelled decades of hostility between the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours.

Indian foreign secretary Shiv Shanker Menon and his Pakistani counterpart, Riaz Mohammed Khan, reviewed the gamut of India-Pakistan relations, including a slew of confidence building steps that the two rivals have taken since they began their dialogue nearly three years ago, an Indian official said.