Kathmandu, March 24 -- Nepal has suspended foreign secretary level talks with Pakistan in the wake of heightened India-Pakistan tension. The move comes just ahead of Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Keshav Gokhale's visit to Kathmandu this week.

The Nepal-Pakistan Bilateral Consultative Mechanism meeting scheduled for March 25 and 26 in Islamabad--slated to be led by the foreign secretaries of Nepal and Pakistan--has been postponed until further notice, at least two senior officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the Post.

The meeting has not taken place in the past decade. The panel was established to review the third round of bilateral consultations and bilateral relations comprehensively. "Amid heightened tension between India...