'We are not going there in accusatory mode but we are going there in exploratory mode,' a top official source said here while maintaining that India will respond to all issues.
India is willing to discuss all issues that may be raised by Pakistan in the June 24 Indo-Pak foreign secretary-level talks as it approaches the parleys in an "exploratory mode" amid indications that Pakistan may ask for the withdrawal of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from Kashmir.
"We are not going there in accusatory mode but we are going there in exploratory mode," a top official source said here while maintaining that India will respond to all issues, including contentious, if raised by Pakistan, with confidence.
When foreign secretary Nirupama Rao meets her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in Islamabad on Thursday, the agenda from the Indian side will be to convey serious concerns over continuing terror by Pakistan-based groups, speedy conclusion of the trial of those involved in 26/11 attacks, infiltration, ceasefire violations and drug trafficking from across the LoC.
People-to-people contact, humanitarian issues and trade across the LoC in Kashmir will also be raised during the parleys with India's keenness to build on the progress made earlier through the composite dialogue and back channel diplomacy. It also maintained that willingness from Pakistan to do so will surely be a "trust building step."
Emphasising that Pakistan needs to tackle terror emanating from its soil against India, the sources said it further complicates the complex relationship, the two countries have.
Maintaining that information about possible attacks on Indian nationals or the targets in the country never cease reflecting a continued problem in the relationship, the sources said it was Pakistan's responsibility to ensure that groups operating from its soil should not be able to carry out such attacks as any such strike in future will have a very "damaging impact".
The sources said India has already sought a "detailed response" from Pakistan on information about the ongoing Mumbai attacks trial and all the investigative links under their possession.
They said these issues as well as role of JuD chief Hafiz Saeed, who is a mastermind of Mumbai attacks and is still roaming free, will also figure in home minister P Chidambaram's meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Rahman Malik on the sidelines of the SAARC interior ministers meeting on June 25 in Islamabad.
Maintaining that India will try to see how it could go about bridging "trust-deficit" as mandated by the two prime ministers in their meeting in Thimphu on April 29, the sources said there will also be an attempt to see what all steps can be put in place to do so.
Maintaining that there was no prepared agenda for the meeting, Bashir said, "We do not have a prepared agenda. We will see what can be identified as doable and then take it to the foreign ministers' level. In this meeting, we will try and find a common denominator", but indicated that Kashmir issue will also be raised.
There were also indications that Pakistan will demand withdrawal of AFSPA, to which the sources maintained that Islamabad has no "locus standi" on the issue.
Rao will be the first official to travel to Pakistan after the 2008 Mumbai attacks following which India called off the composite dialogue process.
With the Indian focus on terrorism, the meeting of the home ministers will set the tone for the meeting between external affairs minister SM Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi on July 15 in Islamabad.
Both the meeting of the foreign secretaries and home ministers, will also give India a good idea of how "serious" Pakistan was to its concerns and where it wants to take the relations with India.
The sources also maintained that the steps such as granting of Most Favoured Nation's status by Pakistan will also give an indication, how serious it was to improve trade relations with India.
Asked if India will also raise of India's most-wanted Dawood Ibrahim being in Karachi, as was recently disclosed by his daughter on a social networking site, the sources said it has been raised on various occasions and Pakistan was aware of country's concerns on the issue.
"His name already figures in the list of fugitive, given to Pakistan and they have to respond," a source said.
Ahead of the meeting between Rao and Bashir, India on Friday handed over a dossier related to 26/11 to Pakistan.
The dossier contained information related to the questions raised in six dossiers that Pakistan handed over two months ago. Besides providing further information on the those behind the terror attacks, including Saeed, the 11th dossier also contained the court judgment sentencing Ajmal Kasab to death for his role in the attacks.
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