India, Pakistan hold border guards-level talks in national capital

India and Pakistan began three- day border guards-level talks in the national capital on Thursday.

The Director Generals of India's Border Security Force and Pakistani Rangers' meeting is aimed at ironing out bilateral issues, including repeated ceasefire violations along the international border and infiltration attempts by terrorists from Pakistan, sources said.

"The talks will also endeavor to focus on positive issues like different levels of communication, more simultaneous coordinated patrolling and other confidence-building measures," a statement by the Border Security Force said.

This is the first security-level meeting between India and Pakistan, a fortnight after the national security advisor-level peace talks between the two countries collapsed following a dispute over the agenda for those talks. Endi