South Asian affairs: Pakistani, Indian ministers meet

Chidambaram and Malik met on sidelines of Saarc meeting in Bhutanese capital Thimpu.

NEW DELHI:

India’s Home Minister P Chidambaram met on Saturday for talks with his Pakistani counterpart, Rehman Malik, warning terrorism posed the most significant ‘challenge’ to security in South Asia.

Chidambaram and Malik met on the sidelines of a South Asia Association of Regional Cooperation (Saarc) meeting in Bhutanese capital Thimpu, their second one-on-one interaction since an encounter in Islamabad last year, the Press Trust of India said.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 24^th, 2011.