India, Pakistan likely to hold foreign secretary-level talks in January

India and Pakistan are likely to hold foreign secretary-level talks in January next year, highly placed sources said Saturday.

"The talks may be held in Islamabad on January 15. Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar will go there to represent this country," the sources said.

However, there has been no official confirmation on it, just like Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surprise stopover in Pakistan Friday on his way back home from Afghanistan.

Bilateral relations between the two countries have begun to improve since Modi held talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Paris on November 30.

That meeting on the sidelines of the climate change conference was followed by national security adviser-level talks in Bangkok.

Just days after that meeting, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj visited Pakistan and held talks with her Pakistani counterpart on the sidelines of the Heart of Asia Conference.

India and Pakistan have fought at least three major wars in the past 60 years over the disputed territory of Kashmir.