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Pak-India secretaries likely discuss Kashmir issue: report
NEW DELHI: In the strongest indication to date of India's willingness to pick up the threads of dialogue blown aside by terrorists in 2008, official sources said that “a clear signal” from Pakistan of its willingness to build on progress made by the two countries earlier would “be a big trust building step.”An Indian newspaper claimed that Manmohan Singh government was looking at next week's meetings between the Foreign Secretaries and Home Ministers of India and Pakistan as a trust building exercise that could allow substantial progress to be made on terrorism and all contentious issues bedeviling the relationship.
They said P. Chidambaram and Nirupama Rao would not be going to Islamabad “in an accusatory mode but an exploratory one.” Ms. Rao will meet with her Pakistani counterpart, Salman Bashir, on June 24, while Mr. Chidambaram, who is travelling to Pakistan for the Saarc Interior Ministers meeting, will sit with Rehman Malik on June 26.
“At the core of our concerns in terrorism, this is very real and has not diminished,” the sources stressed. “But as we have said all along, this is a relationship between neighbours, and dialogue becomes necessary to convey concerns and impress upon the other side where we stand on various issues.”
Mr. Chidambaram will brief Pakistani counterpart about the information fetched from David Headly. It also added that India is willing to discuss all controversial issues including Kashmir.
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