Foreign Secretary level talks with India not a failure: Pakistan

Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam on Thursday asserted that the recent foreign secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan were not a failure, and added that the meeting between both officials was held in a constructive and positive atmosphere.

"I would not like to characterize it as failure. India had characterized it as a visit in the context of SAARC. We said that it is a visit that is taking place in lieu of the August visit as an ice breaker. It is a process. The meeting was held in a constructive and positive atmosphere," Aslam said at a press briefing in Islamabad.

During his visit to the neighbouring country, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar met his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz.

Jaishankar had stated that India would like to work with Pakistan to help SAARC achieve its potential and that he was glad to be in Islamabad as part of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's SAARC Yatra initiative.