New Delhi: India has proposed two sets of
dates -- March 21-22 and March 28-29 -- to Pakistan for Home
Secretary-level talks, where counter-terrorism, including
progress in Mumbai terror attacks trial and the demand for
voice samples of 26/11 accused are expected to be discussed.
Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai extended the invitation to
Pakistan Interior Secretary Chaudhry Qamar Zaman last week and
a response from Islamabad is awaited, official sources said.
This will be the first structured bilateral Secretary-
level meeting on counter-terrorism after the recent Indo-Pak
decision to resume comprehensive talks.
More than two years after India had suspended composite
dialogue with Pakistan in the wake of 26/11 attacks in 2008,
the two sides recently decided to resume comprehensive
dialogue on all outstanding issues.
Pillai last week had said that India will ask Pakistan
how much progress on 26/11 investigations was made in that
country.
"We will ask for voice transcripts even though the trial
court has said no. We will ask them why they have not gone and
appealed. I am sure the High Court or the Supreme Court may
have said that the voice transcripts can be given," he had
said.
India has been demanding voice samples of prime accused
of Mumbai attacks case Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Zaki-ur-
Rehman Lakhvi and others giving instructions to the ten
terrorists who attacked Mumbai.
A Rawalpindi court is hearing a case against Lakhvi and
six of his accomplices, who have been charged with planning
and facilitating the 26/11 strikes.
PTI
