Thimphu: Home Minister P Chidambaram may hold a bilateral meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik on the sidelines of a SAARC conference here if Islamabad makes such a request.
Both Chidambaram and Malik are scheduled to arrive here for the fourth conference of the SAARC Interior/Home Ministers that began on Thursday.
"If they (Pakistan) request, we may meet," Home Secretary R K Singh told PTI.
If the two leaders indeed meet, this will be the second one-on-one interaction between them after their first encounter in Islamabad last year on the sidelines of the last SAARC meeting of Interior/Home Ministers.
Sources said the Indian side is unlikely to place any request for the Chidambaram-Malik meeting but it would not be averse to have a dialogue if Pakistan desires so.
The two leaders may discuss the progress made in Pakistan in efforts to bring the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack to justice, existence of terror infrastructure in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and continuous attempts made by militants to infiltrate across the border.
Interestingly, during the Islamabad one-on-one meeting, Chidambaram had asked Malik to provide voice samples of 26/11 accused Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and several handlers of the terrorists who attacked Mumbai in 2008.
Demanding action, India had also given documents related to several persons, including LeT founder Hafiz Saeed, who have been engaged in anti-India activities and currently based in Pakistan.
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