The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Sunday at its meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh finalised the agenda for upcoming home minister and foreign secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan.
Revealing this, sources in the government said, the CCS, at its two-and-a-half-hour long meeting, has also reviewed the situation in the sub-continent ahead of the key meetings scheduled later this week.
India and Pakistan are expected to take steps to reduce trust deficit between the countries when foreign secretary Nirupama Rao meets her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir on Thursday. Following this home minister P. Chidambram will travel to Islamabad to attend Saarc interior ministers meet on June 26.
The Cabinet committee is learnt to have discussed the use of Army for carrying out de-mining operations in Naxal-hit areas. The issue of deploying Army in anti-Naxal operations has been discussed at length at the CCS but without any consensus on the matter. The Army has trained 47,000 personnel from CRPF and state police since 2006 and also loaned a Brigadier-rank officer as the pointsman to provide advice and direction to the anti-Maoists operations.