A good beginning today when Pakistani Interior Secretary Chaudhary Qamar Zaman & India's Home Secretary G.K. Pillai meet today at New Delhi.

ishwa Nath Singh


We are happy to learn that cross-border terrorism, smuggling of narcotics, inflow of fake Indian currency notes and the progress in 26/11 Mumbai blast case are expected to be discussed during the two-day talks between Home Secretaries of India and Pakistan beginning here today on the 28th of March 2011 and will last till the 29th March 2011.

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(Photo of Pakistani Interior Secretary Chaudhary Qamar Zaman 's arrival at New Delhi)·

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Bishwa Nath Singh:

In this Picture,Pakistani Interior Secretary Chaudhary Qamar Zaman (right) with Home Secretary G.K. Pillai at the IGI Airport in New Delhi on Sunday the 27th of March 2011.A range of issues such as cross-border terrorism, smuggling of narcotics, flow of counterfeit currency into India and the progress in the Mumbai attacks case trial are expected to be discussed by the Home Secretaries of India and Pakistan at the two-day talks beginning here today on the 28th of March 2011 at North Block of New Delhi.The talks will also mark the resumption of high-level discussions on all subjects, more than two years after the dialogue was suspended following the November 26,2008 Mumbai attacks. Significantly, the meeting comes after “cricket diplomacy” began, with Prime Minister Of India Dr.Man Mohan Singh inviting Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani to watch the India-Pakistan cricket World Cup semi-final at Mohali on March 30,2011Today’s talks is expected to take place in a positive atmosphere, Government Sources revealed, pointing out that the Foreign Secretaries decided at Thimphu in February not to raise public expectations, but to allow the confidence-building process to develop gradually.Official sources said they expected the talks to facilitate the resumption of a substantial dialogue later. Union Home Secretaries of India Gopal K. Pillai and Pakistani Interior Secretary Chaudhary Qamar Zaman will also discuss India's concern at Islamabad's reluctance to cooperate fully to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to justice.The sources said the attempt by the prosecution in Pakistan to bring the guilty to justice had hardly worked, and India's request for the voice samples of the handlers of the attackers had been put on the backburner.New Delhi has also conveyed to Islamabad that it wants to send a commission to Pakistan to question the jailed Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, including Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who is accused of planning the attack.Pakistan is likely to ask India about the progress in the Samjhauta Express blast case, in which activists of some rightwing groups were Pakistan Nationals.Let us hope that this meeting will bring some positive result in resoring faith & peace amongst people of two countries and help in contain cross boarder terrorism!

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March 28,2011