英语文摘：India calls resumption of comprehensive dialogue with Pakistan "pragmatic"

NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- India Thursday called the decision for resumption of Indian-Pakistan comprehensive dialogue after two years was "very pragmatic", local media reported.

Saying that keeping this process in "abeyance" for far too long has not given returns for either of the two countries, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said that India and Pakistan must engage in a dialogue which is "serious, sustained and comprehensive".

"We have held it both sides in abeyance for far too long and I don't think it has created returns for either of us. I think this is a very pragmatic decision, a very well thought out decision," Rao told NDTV channel after an official press release was issued simultaneously in New Delhi and Islamabad on the decision to resume dialogue on "all issues".

The two countries fell short of calling the dialogue to be resumed "composite dialogue", but they agreed to resume talks in all fields including defense and security affairs, as well as Kashmir, apart from the foreign secretarial talks which resumed last year.

India suspended composite dialogue with Pakistan after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which New Delhi said were orchestrated from Pakistan.