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President to alley Monmohan's concerns 

ISLAMABAD—India's concerns on cross-border terrorism and all other aspects of Indo-Pak ties may dominate talks between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Gen Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit to be held in the Cuban capital of Havana in October.
Officials of India and Pakistan have firmed up an understanding for a meeting between the two leaders. The meeting will take place and both the leaders will have a frank and candid discussion on host of issues, specially, on India's increasing concerns over the continued existence of infrastructure of terrorism in Pakistan, after Mumbai bomb blasts, Indian officials in Islamabad said.
A formal understanding about the meeting has been reached after the Indian High Commissioner and Foreign Secretary designate Shivshankar Menon, who has returned from New Delhi on Thursday, held talks with top officials of Musharraf's administration.
Indian officials said India's concerns on cross-border terrorism and its firm belief regarding continuation of the remnants of its infrastructure would dominate the Manmohan-Musharraf meet.
The meeting is not simply aimed at reviving the composite dialogue process, it is about the implementation of the commitments given by the President Musharraf to not to let Pakistan's territory to be used for terrorist acts against India, they said.
On Pakistan's concerns over the break in the dialogue process after the Mumbai blasts, they said only the foreign secretary-level talks to review the third round of the Composite Dialogue process was postponed.
The Manmohan-Musharraf meeting was likely to discuss all aspects of relations and expected to provide a direction to efforts to normalise ties, they said. India was also expected to shortly name Menon's successor who could take over as high commissioner early next month.—Agencies

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