New Delhi: With the Karachi blasts and a string of recent bombings in India as the backdrop, India and Pakistan on Monday began the second meeting of their joint anti-terror mechanism in Delhi.
Additional Secretary (international organisations) in the External Affairs Ministry KC Singh, held talks with the Pakistani delegation led by Additional Secretary Khalid Aziz Babar.
The long-delayed meeting will probe into what progress Pakistan has made in tracking down the people behind the blasts on the Samjhauta Express in February.
India had handed over a photo of one of the blast suspects. India is also expected to provide information relating to activities of terrorists with linkages in Pakistan.
The meeting is also likely to bring up with Pakistan the alleged complicity of Pakistan's intelligence agencies in recent blasts in Hyderabad, Ajmer and Ludhiana.
In a recent interview, National Security Adviser MK Narayanan had said that the blasts in the three cities indicated the suspected involvement of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
India and Pakistan have agreed to hold a quarterly meeting of the anti-terror institutional mechanism, which was set up on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Havana nearly a year ago, to enhance cooperation in counter-terrorism between the two countries.
The mechanism followed the serial blasts in Mumbai trains last year that led to a brief suspension of the composite dialogue between the two countries.
A joint statement is expected at the end of the talks.
(With agency inputs)
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