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 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-to-one interaction since an encounter in Islamabad last year, the Press Trust of India said. Malik told reporters the meeting was "very good" and held in a "very cordial atmosphere," the news agency quoted him as saying. He said issues of mutual interest were discussed, without disclosing details. There was no immediate comment from the Indian delegation attending the meeting, which came ahead of foreign minister-level peace talks set for this Tuesday in New Delhi between India and Pakistan. India suspended a four-year peace process with Pakistan after attacks on its financial capital Mumbai killed 166 people in November 2008. But in February, India and Pakistan announced that peace talks would resume. Saturday's discussions came after the Indian home minister told SAARC that countries cannot evade responsibility for acts of terrorism in what was seen as a veiled swipe at Pakistan. Pakistan has blamed so called "non-state actors" for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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