March 24, 2011 8:01 PM

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Dialogue process with Pak to move ahead: Centre

India has expressed confidence that the dialogue process with Pakistan will move forward and hoped that all issues of mutual concern would be discussed. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao told this to reporters in New Delhi on Thursday when asked about New Delhi's expectation from the India- Pakistan Home Secretary-level talks next week. Home Secretary G K Pillai and his Pakistan counterpart Chaudhary Qamar Zaman are expected to discuss a range of issues covering terrorism and progress in 26/11 trial during their parleys on March 28th and 29th. AIR correspondent reports, the Pillai-Zaman meeting will be the first structured bilateral secretary-level meeting on counter-terrorism after the two countries decided to resume comprehensive talks.Last week, Pakistan High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik had met Rao to discuss the agenda for the meeting. On Monday, the envoy also met Pillai in this regard. More than two years after India had suspended the composite dialogue with Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks in November, 2008, the two sides decided in Thimphu in February to resume comprehensive dialogue on all outstanding issues.

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