Indian and Pakistan officials will meet next week in Islamabad to resume discussions by an anti-terror panel on intelligence sharing, the Indian foreign ministry said Tuesday. It will be the third meeting since the panel was formed in 2006 after train bombings in India's financial capital Mumbai killed 186 people in July that year.
India alleged Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency had a role in the Mumbai attacks. Islamabad denied the claim. The Indian delegation will be headed by Vivek Katju, a bureaucrat from the foreign ministry, while Masood Khalid, additional secretary (Asia-Pacific) will lead the Pakistani side, the ministry said in a statement. It did not give details of what was likely to be discussed.
New Delhi accuses Islamabad-backed Islamic militants of waging an insurgency in disputed Kashmir and of triggering attacks in other parts of the country. Pakistan denies it arms or trains the militants. The Kashmir dispute has been the trigger for two of the three wars between India and Pakistan since 1947.
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