AKIPRESS.COM - India and Pakistan have agreed to resume high-level peace talks which stalled in 2012.

The agreement was announced at a regional conference in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, reports BBC.

Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said the foreign secretaries of both countries would meet to set an agenda for meetings on "peace and security".

Talks are to include Kashmir, the spark for two of the rivals' wars since independence from Britain in 1947.

The region, claimed by both countries in its entirety, has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years.

"The foreign secretaries of both countries will meet and chart out the agenda for the meetings," Ms Swaraj told reporters after meeting her counterpart, Sartaj Aziz.

Pakistan is said to have assured the Indian side that it is taking steps to expedite the early conclusion of trials of those accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks of 2009, the BBC's Shahzeb Jillani in Pakistan reports.