Sharm-el-Sheikh, July 16 - A day before the much anticipated meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani, India Wednesday remained noncommittal about whether the two leaders would issue a joint statement as their foreign secretaries continued their discussions till late in the evening.

Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon met his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir for a 90-minute one-on-one meeting Tuesday night. And, on Wednesday the discussions continued.

'We are still in a conversation and we are still talking,' Menon told reporters in a briefing late Wednesday, adding that the two had met several times during the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the day.

And the day would in all likelihood stretch late into the night as the two top diplomats ironed out differences over key issues before the prime ministers' scheduled meeting Thursday morning.

'Whether there is a joint statement or not, we'll let you know tomorrow,' the foreign secretary said amid speculation over whether the Manmohan Singh-Gilani meeting would result in something tangible to take the India-Pakistan relationship forward.

Pakistan's dossier on the probe into the Nov 26 Mumbai attacks, presented to the Indian charge d'affairs in Islamabad Saturday night, contained the identities of five people who are under arrest. It also lists nine proclaimed offenders they are looking for, Menon disclosed.

The two foreign secretaries had been mandated to discuss terrorism and what Pakistan was doing to prevent terror attacks from its soil against India and report back to their leaders.