Jun 02 2008
Indo-Pak mechanism on terror expected to meet soon!
The Indo-Pak joint anti-terror mechanism is expected to meet in New Delhi later this month to discuss collaboration in fighting the menace. It is expected to talk about cross-border linkages to various terror incidents, including Ajmer and Hyderabad that occurred in India. Evidence about the issue are supposed to be laid in the meeting from Indian side.
This will be the third meeting of the mechanism, set up in November 2006 in the aftermath of serial blasts on Mumbai trains. The dates for the meeting are not yet fixed. The meeting is likely to take place in the second half of the month.
The meeting is taking place in the aftermath of the Jaipur serial blasts that killed over 60 people. The incident is however unlikely to be figure in the talks as the investigators have not reached any firm conclusion as to who were behind the terror strike. Investigation in the case is still going on.
After his talks with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee last month, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi agreed that terrorism is a “common menace” for the two countries and they should work together to fight it. The meeting assumes significance considering the readiness of the new democratic dispensation in Pakistan to cooperate with India in fighting terrorism.
