Foreign Secretary level dialogue held between India and Pakistan in Thimphu; Two former police officials sent on judicial remand in connection with the Benazir Bhutto assassination case;
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    • In a significant development, India’s Foreign Secretary Ms. Nirupama Rao and Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir held discussion in Bhutanese capital Thimphu and agreed for a constructive dialogue between the two countries to resolve all outstanding issues. At their meeting, two foreign secretaries affirmed the need to carry forward the dialogue process. According to a press release, the meeting was held in “pursuance of the mandate given by the prime ministers of India and Pakistan, following their meeting in Thimphu in April 2010, and the meeting of the minister of external affairs of India and minister of foreign affairs of Pakistan in July 2010.1

    Reports noted that the Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) in Rawalpindi sent two former police officers of Rawalpindi’s city police named Saud Aziz and SP Khurram Shahzad, on a 14-day judicial remand in connection with the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated three years ago in a gun and suicide attack after addressing an election campaign rally in Rawalpindi, on December 27, 2007.2

    Meanwhile, the United States has once again called for the release of an American diplomat accused of killing two Pakistanis, saying that he acted in legitimate self-defense. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said that the diplomat cannot be lawfully arrested or detained in accordance with the Vienna Convention”.3

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