India’s foreign minister SM Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar on 27 July 2011 agreed to simplify travel procedures and increase the frequency of bus services for people of the divided Jammu and Kashmir during the visit of latter to India. As per the agreement, the number of trading days will be incresed from two to four a week and travel for both tourism and religious purposes will be encouraged. Besides, the nations agreed to respect the list of 21 products of permissible items for cross-LoC trade. In addition, both sides agreed to further specify permissible items.
India and Pakistan also agreed to convene separate meetings of the expert groups on nuclear and conventional confidence building measures in Islamabad in September 2011. Both nations decided to reconvene the meeting of the joint commission that will identify future areas of cooperation.
The two nations also laid emphasis in setting time lines to ensure regular meetings at the administration levels to sort out visa and trading permit problems.
In regard to the resumption of dialogue between India and Pakistan in February 2011, the Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan expressed their satisfaction on the holding of meetings, at appropriate levels, on the outstanding issues between the two countries.
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