India, Pakistan convene joint panel on terrorism

Islamabad, Mar 6: Indian and Pakistani officials began their first ever talks today on how to fight terrorism together.

The panel meeting in Islamabad, was proposed by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when they met in Cuba last September to revive a three-year-old peace process, suspended after bomb attacks on the India city of Mumbai in July killed 186.

The meeting comes 15 days after fire-bombs on an Indian train bound for Pakistan killed 68 people, both Indians and Pakistanis, in an attack both sides said was aimed at sabotaging peace efforts.

The heads of both delegations are foreign ministry additional secretaries, with Tariq Usman Hyder leading the Pakistani side, and K C Singh heading the Indian delegation, officials said.

Reuters

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