NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan agreed Tuesday to set up a “terror hotline” to warn each other of possible militant attacks, a move to build trust as the two nuclear foes get their peace process back on track. Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai, the highest official in the ministry, and his Pakistani counterpart Chaudhary Qamar Zaman also confirmed that an Indian team probing the 2008 attacks in Mumbai may visit Pakistan. “Both sides agreed to set up a hotline between the home secretary of India and the interior secretary of Pakistan to facilitate real-time information sharing with respect to terrorist threats,” they said after talks in New Delhi. The joint statement said that Zaman had agreed “in principle” to India's request to send a commission to Pakistan to investigate the Mumbai attacks, in which ten Pakistan-based militants killed 166 people. “Modalities and composition in this connection will be worked out through diplomatic channels,” itsaid.
