India and Pakistan to resume peace process
Stopping terror attacks in India is expected to top the agenda when Indian and Pakistani officials resume peace talks tomorrow, their first face-to-face meetings since train bombings killed more than 200 people in India’s financial capital.
The Mumbai bombings in July were the worst in a string of terror attacks that have hit India’s cities in the past year, all of them blamed on Islamic militants groups based in Pakistan.
Accusations by Indian officials that Pakistan’s intelligence agency aided the plotters led New Delhi to suspend the peace process, even though Islamabad denied the allegations.
However, Pakistan has said it will aid in the investigation if New Delhi shares its intelligence with Islamabad, and Pakistani president Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh agreed to resume talks when they met in Havana on the sidelines of the Non-aligned Movement Summit in September.
The key to the resumption of the process was an deal by the leaders to create what they described as an anti-terrorism “mechanism” that would help them work together in stopping terrorists.
