COLOMBO, August 2, 2008 (AFP) - The prime ministers of nuclear-armed India and Pakistan ended closed-door talks in Colombo Saturday with an agreement to keep alive their peace process despite growing tensions, an Indian diplomat said.

Indian foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon said Premier Manmohan Singh and his Pakistan counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani agreed recent events such as last month's deadly bomb attack on India's embassy in Kabul had 'cast a pall on the peace process.'

But 'both prime ministers said we need to overcome these (problems) and move forward,' Menon told reporters, adding Gilani agreed to probe charges Pakistani intelligence was behind the embassy suicide attack that killed some 60 people.