Sartaj to take up key issues with Salman today

NEW DELHI: Pakistan will again push for its proposal of strengthening and expanding the existing border supervision mechanism to ensure peace on the Line of Control (LoC) when the country’s National Security Advisor meets the Indian External Affairs Minister on Tuesday here, Geo News reported.

PM’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz who arrived in India Sunday to participate in the Asia-Europe dialogue is scheduled to meet Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in New Delhi later in the afternoon on Tuesday.

The volatile situation on the Line of Control (LoC) and violations of the 2003 ceasefire agreement will be a key talking point among other issues that strain bilateral ties. Progress on the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks case will be another point of discussion as will be the need for early resumption of the dialogue process during the meeting, it is learnt.

Aziz and Khurshid last met in New York during the Nawaz Sharif-Manmohan Singh summit in September on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session.

The top diplomats of the two neighbouring countries will essentially pick up threads from the September 29 Pakistan-India summit in New York and review progress or lack of it since then on key decisions taken by their respective prime ministers. The brief on both sides is likely to be the same as for New York given no headway has been made.

Sartaj Aziz’s call-on Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is also expected today.