ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent to Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali a summary of its proposal for the composite dialogue that Pakistan and India have agreed to hold in February, informed sources told Dawn on Thursday.

The proposal has been prepared by the foreign ministry after holding in-house consultations and receiving inputs from relevant government agencies early this week, the sources said.

Once the proposal gets green signal from the prime minister and is cleared by President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan would submit it to the Indian government through diplomatic channels, the sources added.

They said the proposal recommends secretary-level talks within the June 23, 1997 composite dialogue framework agreed between Indian Foreign Secretary Salman Haider and Pakistan Foreign Secretary Shamshad Ahmed.

This composite dialogue formulation accommodated both the Indian and Pakistani positions. The two secretaries had identified eight areas for the composite dialogue of which two were to be discussed by the foreign secretaries and the remaining six by other secretaries. The two areas to be addressed at the foreign secretary level were Kashmir and peace and security. The other areas included Siachen, Wullar Barrage, Sir Creek, trade, people-to-people contact and terrorism and drugs.

India is also likely to a make a specific proposal regarding the level, structure, dates and venue of the composite dialogue. Meanwhile, some reports in the Indian press suggest that New Delhi wants the dialogue to start at the junior level. According to the sources, the composite dialogue process is likely to start in mid-February.