NEW DELHI: Asserting that talks on terror with Pakistan can definitely go ahead, provided it denounces terror, the
Ministry of External Affairs today confirmed that an NSA level talks between the two nations took place last month.
MEA also confirmed an earlier report of a "secret meeting" between the NSAs of the two countries.
"I am agreeing that talks took place and our issue was eliminating terrorism from the region, we of course raised the issue of cross-border terrorism in those talks," Kumar said.
Earlier, a news report had suggested that a "secret" meeting between Pakistan's National Security Advisor retired
Lt Gen Nasser Khan Janjua and India's National Security Advisor
Ajit Doval had taken place on December 27 in Thailand.
"The meeting was good. Doval's tone and tenor was friendly and positive," the report quoted a Pakistani official who had been briefed about the meeting.
He was told the meeting was useful and said it might help in restarting some sort of engagement at the diplomatic level as well, the report said.
According to the Pakistani official, the meeting came a day after Indian death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav met with his family on December 25 in Islamabad.
