NEW DELHI - India and Pakistan held peace talks yesterday and agreed in a good will gesture to free several hundred fishermen held by the two countries.
The maiden meeting between Pakistani Foreign Minister Mr Gohar Ayub Khan, and his Indian counterpart, Mr Inder Kumar Gujra, marked the first talks since negotiations resumed last month after a three year hiatus marred by diplomatic sniping and an insurgency in divided Kashmir.
The two nations, which have fought three wars since independence in 1947, resumed high level talks last month when their foreign secretaries - the highest ranking civil servants in the foreign ministries - held four days of negotiations.
Officials said the first move would involve the co ordinated release of several hundred fishermen held by the countries for illegally fishing in each other's waters.