NEW DELHI, June 27: India and Pakistan were believed on Sunday to have agreed in principle to a clutch of measures to boost confidence building on both sides after their foreign secretaries met in what were described as positive talks.

Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar, leading a nine-member delegation, will meet his Indian counterpart Shashank again on Monday to revive their dialogue on the Kashmir dispute, a move they flirted with six years ago. The first day was devoted to a range of issues related to nuclear and conventional CBMs.

Mr Khokhar is scheduled to call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Foreign Minister Natwar Singh and National Security Adviser Jyotindra Nath Dixit on Monday.

Usually reliable sources told Dawn that a set of measures to be announced on Monday could include the restoration of the diplomatic strength in their Delhi and Islamabad missions to their original 110 personnel each. These were cut to half in December 2001.

Similarly, Pakistan is believed to have accepted India's suggestion to reopen the consulates in Karachi and Mumbai. It will continue to lay claim to the Jinnah House in Mumbai while accepting an alternative location for the purpose.

There was discussion too on the revival of the road and train link on the Rajasthan-Sindh border. The logistics of this would be handed to a technical group to advance. Sources said the facility could take "months, not weeks" to become operational.

The proposal to revive the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road link, supported by some Kashmiris, including Mirwaiz Maulvi Umar Farooq and opposed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, was discussed.

To circumvent the controversy over the travel documents - whether they should be passports of India and Pakistan or UN papers - a proposal, apparently from Pakistan, was doing the rounds to revive the old "rahdari system" that facilitated travel across the divided Kashmir before 1953.

On the nuclear CBMs, which is a key part of their brief, the foreign secretaries accepted the recommendations of their additional secretaries who discussed the issue recently.

In the realm of conventional CBMs, they discussed improvement of communications for their maritime units, measures to make their fishermen less prone to arbitrary detentions, beefing up meetings between India's Border Security Forces and Pakistan Rangers.