Relations between the two countries nosedived after the Mumbai terror attack. India suspended the composite dialogue process. The latest effort at putting them back on track comes as the alleged mastermind of the attacks, Jamaat-ud-Daawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed's case is up for hearing in the Pakistan Supreme Court. While the prickly issue of his release is being heard in Islamabad, the two countries are in the process of ironing out some of their differences.

Saeed, arrested after the UN Security Council banned his organisation, was released in June by the Lahore High Court that ruled he could not be kept under house arrest without any evidence.

India is also studying the dossier on the probe into the Mumbai terror attack that Pakistan handed over to its Charge d' Affaire Manpreet Vora in Islamabad Saturday night.

The hectic India-Pakistan negotiations come on the sidelines of the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit. Wednesday, the first day of the two-day summits, will be hectic with Manmohan Singh also scheduled to make his address in the afternoon and hold bilateral discussions with Vietnam President Nguyen Minh Triet and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.