SLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan and India agreed to push forward plans for a nuclear hotline after two days of talks but failed to reach a deal on advance warning of ballistic missile tests, officials said.
The South Asian rivals said they would "operationalize... as soon as possible" the hotline between their foreign secretaries, which had been agreed on in principle at earlier talks in June.
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Both sides insisted they had made progress during the meetings between senior officials in Islamabad, which are the latest stage in a step-by-step peace process begun in January.
"We have agreed to operationalize it as soon as possible," Tariq Osman Hyder, additional secretary at Pakistan's foreign ministry, who led Pakistan's delegation told reporters when asked about the hotline.
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