The former RAW chief, A.K. Verma, and the former Inter-Services Intelligence head, General Hamid Gul, then held two rounds of discussion.
The secret talks were brokered by Jordanian royal Talal bin-Hassan, whose wife, Princess Sarvath el-Hassan, is of Indian origin. Princess el-Hassan’s father, the eminent Bhopal-born diplomat Mohammad Ikramullah, was a senior Indian Civil Service officer who served on Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s Partition Committee and later became Pakistan’s first Foreign Secretary. Her mother, Kolkata-born Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, was a well-known novelist.