The foreign secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan look likely to resume after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf meet on the margins of the Nonaligned Movement summit.

Sources close to the prime minister indicated that if the results of the talks between Singh and Musharraf were positive and productive, then it could lead to the resumption of the stalled foreign secretary-level talks.

Though formally no dates were fixed, a round of anticipated foreign secretary-level talks was called off in the immediate aftermath of the July serial blasts in Mumbai.

Indications are that the prime minister will convey strongly the need for Pakistan to act tough in reigning in the terror outfits that operate from the Pakistani soil.

Foreign Secretary-designate P Shivshankar Menon, currently the high commissioner in Islamabad, is in the prime minister's delegation and would be around to assist him when he meets Musharraf.