With dates being fixed for the Foreign Ministerial talks, India will be looking for a clear position of the new Pakistani dispensation on Kashmir, considering the different views expressed by the leaders there.
The dialogue will resume with Foreign Secretary-level talks in Islamabad on May 20, to be followed a day later by talks between External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
During the talks, the Indian side will be eagerly looking for a clear official position of new government of Pakistan on Kashmir, as different leaders have been speaking in different voices on the subject.
Soon after the new government came to power, Pakistan People's Party leader Asif Ali Zardari had said that the two countries should improve ties, putting aside the Kashmir issue to be resolved by the future generations.
However, a few days later, Qureshi said his top priorities would include seeking a just resolution of the Kashmir issue, taking into account the aspirations of the people of the state.
Such divergent views have confused New Delhi, which is not sure which opinion should be taken seriously.
New Delhi hopes that the first high-level political contact on May 21 in Islamabad would help speed up the dialogue process that has been stalled since last October due to internal turmoil in Pakistan.
"We are ready to pick up threads (of dialogue)," an official source said in New Delhi on Friday about the resumption of composite dialogue.
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