Spy scandal sours mood for India-Pakistan talks

Indian and Pakistani leaders get together Wednesday at a provincial summit in Bhutan, but a spy scandal dented already slim hope that they could find a way back to substantive peace negotiations.

Tuesday just before Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh going away for the peak, said officials in New Delhi that an Indian civil servant working at their embassy in Islamabad had been arrested on suspicion of secrets from Pakistani intelligence agencies.
The two prime ministers will attend the opening ceremony Wednesday afternoon of the 16th The summit of the eight-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).

Indian authorities had floated the prospect of a two-way meeting on the sidelines to talk about a prolonged quarrel water, but Pakistan has made it clear that they want a formal, open conversation.

"It is time for India to make his mind whether it wants to connect or not .... appointment is the only way forward," Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the Indian CNN-IBN television channel on Tuesday.

"We must go further than a handshake," said Qureshi, referring to Singh and Gilani is superficial exchange of courtship in a 47-nation meeting on nuclear safety in Washington previous this month.