Pak positive & open minded about Home Secy level talks: Envoy

In the run-up to the meeting on March 28 and 29 here, Pakistan High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik met Union Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai and discussed the agenda for the proposed talks, the first structured bilateral secretary- level meeting on counter-terrorism after India and Pakistan decided to resume comprehensive talks.

"I have come with the message for this very important meeting which is restart of the process (of dialogue) between the two countries. We are positive and open minded and I got the same message from the Indian side also," Malik told reporters after meeting Pillai.

Pillai and his Pakistan counterpart Chaudhry Qamar Zaman are expected to hold substantive talks on a range of issues including terrorism and progress in 26/11 trial. New Delhi is unhappy over the pace of 26/11 trial in Pakistan.

More than two years after India had suspended the composite dialogue with Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks in November, 2008, the two sides decided in Thimphu in February to resume comprehensive dialogue on all outstanding issues.