New Delhi: India and Pakistan today (June 28, 2004) decided to restore with immediate effect the strength of respective High Commissions to 110 each.

A joint statement issued after two-day Foreign Secretary-level talks said the two sides had also agreed in principle to reopen their Consulates General in Mumbai and Karachi.

The two sides also decided to evolve a mechanism for release of all fishermen as also deal with the problem of fishermen unintentionally transgressing into each other's territory.