Feb. 3, 2010 (Bloomberg) — India’s Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram will travel to Pakistan this month for a regional meeting, the first high-level bilateral visit since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
Chidambaram will attend the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation meeting scheduled for Feb. 26 and 27, said Vishnu Prakash, India’s foreign ministry spokesman.
Chidambaram will get an opportunity for “very useful exchanges” with his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik and other leaders during the multilateral meeting, the Press Trust of India reported, citing India’s Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna.
India, which blamed terrorist “elements” from Pakistan for the November 2008 assault on Mumbai that left 166 people dead, has presented seven dossiers of evidence to Pakistan. The attacks interrupted a five-year peace process between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, who have fought three wars since independence in 1947.
In February last year, Pakistan acknowledged that its territory was used to plot the attacks and filed charges against 27 people for their role in the attacks.
“A few steps” by Pakistan on the probe into the Mumbai attacks will satisfy India and help in dialogue, Press Trust said, citing Krishna.
Source: Bloomberg.com
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