ON JULY 15, foreign minister S.M. Krishna will leave for Islamabad for bilateral talks with his Pakistani counterpart. Krishna says he is going for talks that will “bring our two countries closer together. Let us hope that our efforts will be fruitfulâ€. Back in Islamabad, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Krishna’s host, says Pakistan will raise the issue of “human rights violations and army excesses†in Kashmir.
