ISLAMABAD, Aug. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- A nine-member Pakistani delegation left for New Delhi on Thursday for two-day experts-level talks with their Indian counterparts on Nuclear Confidence Building Measures (CBMs), beginning on Aug. 5.

    Tariq Osman Hyder, Additional Secretary in Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who is leading the delegation, told reporters that he is hopeful of fruitful outcome of the talks.

    "We are going with an open heart," Hyder said.

    Local Reports suggest that the two sides are likely to formalize an agreement on advance notification of missile tests.

    The two countries give advance information on missile testing under an understanding, but they want to ink a formal agreement.

    The draft agreement on pre-flight testing of missiles is ready and was discussed extensively at the last round of bilateral talkson nuclear CBMs in Islamabad last year.

    The talks would look into the proposals for the establishment of a hotline between the two foreign secretaries, up-gradation of the existing hotline between the Pakistani and Indian directors general of military operations and exchange of nuclear doctrines.

    The two sides will also explore the proposal of a nuclear restraint regime and the setting up of nuclear risk reduction centers during discussions that are aimed at reducing the risk of accidental or unauthorized use of nuclear weapons.

    Difficult questions such as the deployment, mating, targeting and de-alerting of nuclear weapons are also likely to figure in the talks.

    Experts-level talks on conventional CBMs will also be held in New Delhi on Aug. 8.

    A Pakistani delegation on Economic and Commercial Cooperation headed by Commerce Secretary Tasneem Noorani will also leave for New Delhi on Aug.8 to attend a two-day meeting within the framework of the Pak-Indo Composite Dialogue process initiated early last year.

    The two-day talks to be held on Aug. 9 and 10 are expected to take up various items of agenda including the report of the Joint Study Group and the issue of non-tariff barriers to enhance trade between the two countries.

    Home Secretary-level meeting on terrorism and drug trafficking between the two countries will be held in New Delhi on Aug. 29 and30 as a part of the Composite Dialogue process. Enditem