News from the Saarc summit in the Maldives.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said today that talks between the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan have imparted a "seriousness of purpose" to bilateral engagements with both sides agreeing to finalise a calender of meetings to discuss all outstanding issues in a result-oriented manner, said today.

"Pakistan had positively evaluated the talks and welcomed India's readiness for a broad ranging engagement," Khar said in a statement issued here by the Foreign Office, a day after Manmohan Singh met his Pakistani counterpart Yosuf Raza Gilani on the margins of the SAARC summit in Maldives.