Ahead of the New York meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Musharraf, Saran and Pakistan Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan on Thursday reviewed the progress in the composite dialogue process and decided to carry it forward.
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India also proposed two additional bus routes between the two countries but firmly ruled out redrawing of boundaries or fixing "artificial deadlines" for resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir issue.
Both sides also agreed "in principle" to increase the frequency of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service and to set up a hotline between the two foreign secretaries soon.