Islamabad, June 23: Bridging the trust deficit between India and Pakistan and finding the elusive common ground in efforts to tackle terrorism will top the agenda when Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao meets her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir for talks here tomorrow.
Rao, the first senior Indian official to visit Pakistan since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, and Bashir have been tasked by Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani to find ways to bridge the trust deficit and prepare the ground for a meeting of the Foreign Ministers on July 15.
Terrorism, particularly India’s concerns about Pakistan-based terror groups like the Lashker-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, will be among the issues that will be raised by Rao during her meeting with Bashir at the Foreign Office tomorrow at 11 am, diplomatic and official sources told PTI.
–PTI