Pakistan, India agree on Kashmir trade

NEW DELHI: Pakistan and India agreed on Monday to start trading in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.

The decision was taken after talks involving senior officials and chaired by the deputy foreign ministers of the two countries.

An agreement is now expected to be signed during a meeting between India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan's newly-elected president, Asif Ali Zardari, in New York later this week.

The meeting will be held on the sidelines of the current UN General Assembly session.The news channel said trade will begin at the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and Poonch-Rawlakot checkpoints.

It also said that the lists of items subject for trade on both sides had been exchanged.