By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : Against the backdrop of a spurt in cross-border terrorism, National Security Advisers of India and Pakistan will meet here on Monday to discuss cooperation to check the menace.
Jammu and Kashmir is also expected to figure in the talks between National Security Adviser M K Narayanan and his Pakistani counterpart Mahmud Ali Durrani.
“I have an open agenda. Friendship is my agenda,” Durrani told reporters at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on his arrival.
Besides holding talks with Narayanan, Durrani will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Durrani’s visit is a follow-up to meeting between Singh and Pakistan 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 Jammu and Kashmir.
During the meeting, Singh had expressed concern over terrorism and repeated ceasefire violations in Jammu and Kashmir by Pakistani troops, which had brought the Composite Dialogue process under strain.
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.