
NEW DELHI: National Security advisers of Pakistan and India will meet here today to discuss cooperation to check the menace of terrorism while the issue of Kashmir is also expected to figure in the talks between the two sides.
“I have an open agenda. Friendship is my agenda,” Mahmud Ali Durrani, the National Security Adviser of Pakistan, told reporters at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on his arrival.
Besides holding talks with his Indian counterpart M K Narayanan, Durrani will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. His visit is a follow-up of a meeting between Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The two sides are expected to take forward the discussions that Singh and Zardari had on various issues, particularly terrorism and the issue of Kashmir.
Durrani and Narayanan will discuss ways to enhance cooperation in tackling terrorism and are also expected to decide on the date for the next meeting of the Joint Anti-Terror Mechanism.