Islamabad: Islamabad on Monday asked New Delhi to share information about the involvement of any Pakistani national in the acts of terror.
''The joint anti-terror mechanism is now operational and India should share information about any Pakistanis, who are involved in carrying out acts of terror there,'' Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasneem Aslam said.
Islamabad and New Delhi agreed over weekend during External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit to Islamabad that the first meeting of the joint anti-terror mechanism would be held before the end of March.
The decision to form the mechanism was taken at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with President Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of the NAM summit at Havana in September to identify and implement counter-terrorism initiatives and investigations.
India has been asking Pakistan to hand over the most wanted terrorist and the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and several others, including Hizbul Mujahideen Chief Syed Salahuddin.
The issue came under discussion at the last round of talks between Interior secretaries of the two countries, which were held here in May 2006 as part of the ongoing composite dialogue process.
Pakistan Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah had told his Indian counterpart V K Duggal that Ibrahim was not a Pakistani national and efforts should, therefore, be directed against tracing him out in India.
The Indian delegation had also handed over to Pakistan a list of 38 wanted people, which also included name of Dawood Ibrahim.
About Pranab Mukherjee's visit, Tasneem Aslam said it provided another opportunity to the two countries to review the ongoing composite dialogue process.
While reading out decisions taken during his meeting with Khurshid Kasuri, Mukherjee had told reporters here on Saturday that the fourth round of the composite dialogue would be held on 13-14 March.
Tasneem Aslam said meeting of the sub-commission on information and education would be held in New Delhi next month, followed by meeting of the Joint Economic Commission (JEC).
The JEC has four sub-commissions, which review ways to further reinforce cooperation between the two countries in areas of environment, agriculture, science and technology, telecommunications, tourism, health and information and education.
The sub-commission on information and education will meet for the first time.
When asked if the Jammu and Kashmir issue came under discussions at the Foreign Ministers' meeting in Islamabad she said, ''The dispute was discussed in great detail during Mr Mukherjee's meetings with President Musharraf, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Foreign Minister Kasuri,'' adding that the issue has been under discussion at various levels.
She said Pakistan believed that progress on the issue would facilitate normalisation of relations between the two countries.
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