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• External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday held a meeting here with six former envoys to Pakistan.

• The meeting comes in the wake of the terror attack on the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot.

• The meeting was held to discuss India's strategy vis-a-vis Pakistan

.NEW DELHIExternal affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday held a meeting here with six former envoys to Pakistan in wake of the terror attack on the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot in which at least seven Indian security personnel were killed.

Those participating in the meet were TCA Raghavan, who retired as India's high commissioner to Pakistan last month, along with his predecessors Shyam Saran, Satindra Lambah, SS Menon, Satyadutt Pal, and Sharad Sabharwal, external affairs ministry sources told IANS.

The meeting was held to discuss India's strategy vis-a-vis Pakistan following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dramatic stopover in Lahore from Kabul to New Delhi on December 25 last year to meet his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, it is learnt.
The sources, however, refrained from giving details of Sunday's meeting.

Saturday's Pathankot terror attack came barely days before the proposed foreign secretary-level talks in Islamabad in the middle of this month.

• External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday held a meeting here with six former envoys to Pakistan.• The meeting comes in the wake of the terror attack on the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot.

• The meeting was held to discuss India's strategy vis-a-vis Pakistan.