26/11 probe on agenda for Feb 25 talks

Ahead of the India-Pakistan foreign secretary-level talks, Home Minister P Chidambaram said that all pending issues related to 26/11 investigations would be taken up in the meeting, reports HT Correspondent.

Ahead of the India-Pakistan foreign secretary-level talks, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said that all pending issues related to 26/11 investigations would be taken up in the meeting.

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Foreign secretary Nirupama Rao will be meeting her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in the Capital on February 25.

“We are yet to finalise the specific issues that would be in the agenda but the pending issues concerning the 26/11 case and investigation also to be part of it,” he said while interacting with journalists at the Indian Women’s Press Corps on Friday.

The pending issues include voice samples of the seven Lashkar-e-Tayyeba operatives accused in the 26/11 attacks, a home ministry official said.

Asked if the Centre is trying to seek access to David Headley, the suspected Lashkar operative in the US, Chidambaram said, “As far as access to Headley is concerned, our position remains the same that we will go through legal process to seek access to David Headley.” Headley is lodged in a Chicago jail.

Asked if he was in favour of talks between India and Pakistan, coming close on the heels of Pune blast and Islamabad’s failure to dismantle terror infrastructure, he said, “It is government’s decision of which I am also a part. The government has decided that the two foreign secretaries of the two countries will meet on February 25 and I am part of the government... All of us have decided that the secretaries will meet.”