The Prime Minister's principal secretary Brajesh Mishra today said, ``final instructions on when the Foreign Secretary-level talks should be started would be given by them''.

Mishra told a private television network that the two sides, after five rounds of discussions in Durban, had resolved differences on modalities for re-starting the dialogue process.

To a question, he denied that India had agreed to set up a separate working group to discuss the Kashmir issue. While Pakistan has been insisting that as per the June 23, 1997 joint agreement, the two sides had given its nod for establishing such a working group, India has maintained that two issues -- peace and security and J and K -- had to be tackled at the ForeignSecretaries level. He also denied suggestions that New Delhi was very close to signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

Maintaining that there was no secrecy in the parleys the Prime Minister's special emissary Jaswant Singh had with US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott in Washington last month, he told a private television channel: ``There has been progress on that front.''