India-Pak counter-terrorism panel holds maiden meeting
The India-Pakistan Joint Mechanism on Terrorism today held its first meeting here with New Delhi focusing on the involvement of Pakistan-based elements in incidents of terrorism on its soil, including the Mumbai blasts.
By PTI |
ISLAMABAD: The India-Pakistan Joint Mechanism on Terrorism today held its first meeting here with New Delhi focusing on the involvement of Pakistan-based elements in incidents of terrorism on its soil, including the Mumbai blasts.
A three-member Indian delegation headed by K C Singh, Additional Secretary in the External Affairs Ministry, held talks with the team led by Tariq Usman Haider of the Pakistan Foreign Office.
The JMT consisted of officials from Foreign Offices, Home and intelligence services of both the countries.
This is the maiden meeting of the counter-terrorism panel since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf decided on setting it up on the sidelines of the NAM summit in Havana in September last year.
The JMT helped to ease tensions arising out of the last year's Mumbai train bomb blasts which Indian officials blamed on Pakistan militant groups.
India has forwarded the details of investigations in different cases of incidents of terrorism to Pakistan during the Foreign Secretaries meeting last November and Pakistan was formally expected to respond to the details forwarded by India during the meeting.
India was also expected to forward details of the investigations into Mumbai bomb blasts which could not be forwarded last year on the ground that the judicial formalities relating to the case were not completed.
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