The prime ministers of nuclear-armed India and Pakistan ended closed-door talks in Colombo on Saturday with an agreement to keep alive their peace process despite escalating tensions, diplomats said.
Indian foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon said Premier Manmohan Singh and his Pakistan counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani agreed last month's bombing of India's embassy in Kabul and other events had "cast a pall" on peace efforts.
But"both prime ministers said we need to overcome these problems and move forward," Menon told reporters, adding Gilani agreed to probe charges Pakistani intelligence was behind the embassy suicide attack that killed some 60 people.
"Prime Minister Gilani said he would conduct an independent investigation (into the Kabul blast), he will discuss the matter with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and will look into the matter,"Menon said.
