ISI needs to be destroyed: India

He said India-Pakistan relations were sought to be improved through a comprehensive dialogue mechanism. “The anti-terror mechanism was one piece of this picture. The hope was that in course of time both sides would share whatever information they have and come up with a holistic idea of what was going on,” he said.

“Talk-talk is better than fight-fight. But it hasn’t worked so far. In some way, we haven’t arrived at the decision that we should go for fight-fight so let talk-talk continue for the moment,” Narayanan said.

The NSA said there was a ‘hiccup’ in the peace process towards the end of 2006 and early 2007. “It hasn’t really picked up.... We are hoping that the new administration will take this up again.”