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Technical round of SAARC interior ministers conference is underway in Islamabad. Home Ministers of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will discuss ways to strengthen the Colombo-based SAARC Terror Offences Monitoring Desk and Drug Offences Monitoring Desk, which are the nodal agencies to fight against these problems. Building up a regional police network to curb trans-boundary crimes will be high on agenda of the Home Ministers' Conference of SAARC being held in Islamabad today. The proposal to strengthen police cooperation, women and children trafficking, prevention of smuggling of counterfeit notes and drugs will be highlighted at the meeting. A meeting of Police Chiefs and Home Secretaries of the SAARC countries will precede the conference on June 24 and 25. The conference will also discuss SAARC Visa facility and review possibilities for its category expansion. The first meeting of its kind was held in Dhaka in 2006 and the second in New Delhi in 2007.
