ISLAMABAD, July 22: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said on Thursday that all issues would be discussed in the forthcoming foreign ministers' meeting to be held in New Delhi in early September.

Replying to a question about the proposed Muzzafarabad-Srinagar bus service on a BBC World programme, he said: "We are discussing modalities and hopefully in New Delhi where I will go on the invitation of Indian foreign minister in early September, all these issues will be discussed."

Answering another question about increase in defence expenditure, he said: "We live in a real world, you cannot expect the government of Pakistan not to take note of that."

"But all I can do is make efforts towards improvement of relations between Pakistan and India. Hopefully, similar opinion will build in India as the process goes forward." Mr Kasuri added that "I am keen to take the Saarc process forward." -APP