India and Pakistan will hold a meeting of their coast guard officials on Monday in New Delhi, sources said here on Sunday. Top on the agenda will be the issue of fishermen and illegal trafficking, they said.
This comes even as former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav is facing death sentence in Pakistan on charges of espionage, and that has soured relationship between the two countries.
This is the second time after the surgical strikes in September 2016 that security establishment officials from Pakistan will be visiting. In January-February this year, Islamabad sent a four-member team of counter-terrorism and intelligence specialists to attend an SCO meeting.
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On Monday, the chief of Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) Rear Admiral Zaka Ur Rehman will be representing Pakistan, while the Indian side will be represented by Indian Coast Guard director general Rajender Singh.
In July 2016, Indian Coast Guard officials had visited Islamabad for the previous round of talks.
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