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Anti-terror mechanism to be key item on agenda

Nirupama Subramanian

Pakistan wants Additional Foreign Secretaries to head it

Mahmud Kasuri

ISLAMABAD: Discussions on a framework for the proposed anti-terrorism joint institutional mechanism will be a key item on the agenda at the coming talks between the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan.

Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri told Dawn that Pakistan would propose that the "Additional Foreign Secretaries" head it, and that it "include two relevant people from each side."

National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan said in an interview on CNN-IBN that India was thinking of a "two-tier mechanism" and that this proposal would be presented to Pakistan at the November meeting of the foreign secretaries.

He indicated that India too wanted an Additional Secretary or Special Secretary to head the mechanism, with representation from the intelligence agencies of both countries. The setting up of a joint institutional mechanism was a proposal emanating from the Havana meeting between President Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

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