Islamabad will host the meeting to discuss nuclear issues on December 14-15 which will raise the question of a draft agreement on advance information about missile tests, foreign office spokesman Masood Khan told a weekly briefing.

Pakistan and India, who conducted tit-for-tat nuclear tests in 1998, have been conducting periodic missile tests throughout a peace dialogue which has been underway since January.

The first meeting on the schedule will focus on on narcotics control in New Delhi on November 29-30.

Talks on restarting a dormant rail link between the Indian city of Munnabao and the Pakistani southern border city of Khokhrapar will take place in Islamabad on December 2-3.

It will be followed by a meeting between the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency and the Indian Coast Guards on December 3-4 in New Delhi to establish communication links between them.

A meeting on starting a first bus service across the Line of Control in disputed Kashmir between Srinagar, the summer capital of restive Indian-administered Kashmir, and Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir will be held in New Delhi on December 7-8.

Talks on trade issues are set for December 9-10, also in the Indian capital. A confidence building measures meeting in the sphere of conventional sources will be held in Islamabad on December 15-16.

Pakistani and Indian officials will meet on December 14-15 in the southern port city of Karachi for a joint survey of boundary markers in the marshy stretch called Sir Creek off the western Indian state of Gujarat.

Khan said Pakistan has proposed a meeting of foreign secretaries of the two countries in the third or last week of December to wrap up the second phase of the dialogue process.

Kashmi, the cause of two of three wars between the two countries, will be discussed between the two foreign secretaries along with Peace and Security, he said.

Pakistan hope that the step-by-step dialogue process will lead to a resolution of Kashmir dispute in line with the aspiration of Kashmiri people.

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