The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan have extended their peace talks amid hope and expectations. Official sources said that the talks are progressing well. The external affairs minister Mr. S.M. Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi began discussions this morning. <br/><br/>The two sides will meet again later this evening before addressing a joint press conference. Before this Mr. Krishna will call on the President and the Prime Minister of Pakistan to exchange views on the issues of mutual concern. <br/><br/>This interaction is considered most significant since the prime ministers of the two countries decided in Bhutan in April to resume talks to put the relations back on track after the Mumbai terror attack.<br/><br/>On his arrival in Islamabad Mr. Krishna underlined India’s need to see Pakistan act firmly on confessions by terror suspect David Coleman Headley, a Pakistan-born American. He told reporters that Headley told Indian and American interrogators that he had scouted high-profile sites in Mumbai to be targeted by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba. Indian officials have now said that the Lashkar was not alone when 10 of its heavily armed members sneaked into Mumbai by the sea and killed 166 Indians and foreigners, and that the Pakistani intelligence was very much involved. <br/><br/>Our correspondent covering the talk’s reports from Islamabad, promoting more people-to-people contacts, increasing border trade including across Jammu and Kashmir, increasing the number of train and bus links, and making prisoner swaps easier. <br/><br/>Before leaving for home in the evening, Krishna will meet delegations from the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), the Awami National Party (ANP) and the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The security around the venue of the talks is very tight.