From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1972: Fifty Years Ago: Talks at crucial stage.

SIMLA -- Officials of India and Pakistan, who were asked yesterday [June 28] by their respective leaders ... to discuss the agenda for the summit, were still plodding their way to find a common ground on specifics so that the summit meeting can be resumed.

Premier Indira Gandhi and President Bhutto did not have another formal session after yesterday's preliminary meeting and officials here could not say when it will be held. But they met at a dinner given by Mrs Gandhi for Mr Bhutto. Attended by only 20 persons, it was described as a 'working dinner'... . A Pakistani delegation spokesman, after the officials' meeting, said the talks were at a very crucial stage - a stage where one could not really...

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