Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai and his Pakistani counterpart Jalil Abbas Jilani began their talks in New Delhi today. India is expected to emphasize on the issue of terror activities being planned from Pakistani soil in the backdrop of arrest of LeT terrorist Abu Jundal, who has revealed Pakistani involvement in Mumbai terror attacks. The Indian side is also expected to hand over copies of the Pakistani passport and Pakistan's domestic identity cards issued to Jundal in the name of Riyasat Ali to the visiting delegation, indicating the involvement of its state agencies.Foreign Secretaries Mathai and Jilani are also having talks on peace and security, Jammu and Kashmir and promotion of friendly exchanges between India and Pakistan.India will also ask Pakistan to find out how such crucial national documents were issued to Jundal to know who were behind providing the passport and the two ID cards to Jundal. Jundal's Pakistani passport, which is valid till 2014, enabled him to travel to Saudi Arabia from Pakistan.
The Indian side will also hand over a list of Jundal's Pakistani contacts given by him during his sustained interrogation by the security agencies.
Jundal had revealed that he, along with LeT founder Hafiz Saeed, was in the control room in Pakistan during 26/11 Mumbai carnage in 2008 in which 166 people were killed.
Last week, Home Minister P Chidambaram had strongly stated that Jundal's arrest showed there was state support for the 26/11 attacks. It had evoked a sharp reaction from Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik who had said that India was failing to control its own citizens.
Pak Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani said that Islamabad will support India in its fight against terrorism. Mr Jilani, who arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday, said that he has been given mandate to carry forward the dialogue process with India.
The Indian side is also expected to raise the issue of release of Sarabjit Singh, currently serving death sentence in a Pakistani Jail.