Pakistan believes that the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in Islamabad next year will provide a way for resumption of talks with India, Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said on Tuesday.

"We sincerely hope that Indian leaders will reciprocate the spirit in which we have made these gestures with a view to moving towards the resumption of a substantive and composite dialogue on all issues, including the core dispute of Jammu and Kashmir," Kasuri said at a ceremony at the Foreign Service Academy in Islamabad.

The resolution of the Kashmir issue is "an essential prerequisite for making headway in ushering in an era of peace, stability and progress in South Asia", he said.