The meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will be on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly conference, the Press Trust of India quoted Singh as telling reporters in Kabul.

The talks will be their first since New Delhi in April, when they declared the peace process launched in January 2004 to be irreversible. "The dialogue is on with Pakistan. What result it will have, it is not possible for me to say now," the news agency quoted Singh as saying.

"When I meet President Musharraf, I may be able to say something."

The New York talks follow a series of meetings, known as the Composite Dialogue, between officials of the two countries on issues such as nuclear weapons, conventional warfare and cross-border trade.

The latest round in the Indian capital is at home secretary (interior ministry) level and precedes a meeting later this week in Islamabad between senior foreign ministry officials.

The peace drive is aimed at resolving decades-old disputes between the nuclear-armed rivals, including over the core issue of Kashmir.

Each country controls part of Kashmir but claims it in full. The territory has triggered two of their three wars since independence in 1947.

Ahead of the two-day talks in New Delhi which began Monday, a home ministry official said India would take up the case of all Indians in Pakistani jails including Sarabjit Singh -- sentenced to death earlier this month for allegedly masterminding bomb blasts in the northern Pakistani city of Lahore.

Pakistan says Singh is an Indian spy who carried out the 1990 bomb attacks. His family says he is a farmer who crossed the border while he was drunk and has urged Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to grant him clemency.

India says there are 1,348 Indians in Pakistani prisons while Pakistan says more than 700 of its nationals are in Indian jails.

Indian home secretary V.K. Duggal, meanwhile, said that besides the issue of detainees, New Delhi would press Islamabad to deport "terrorists" who committed crimes in India and then took refuge in Pakistan, including mafia don Dawood Ibrahim.

India accuses Ibrahim of masterminding 1993 serial bomb blasts in its commercial capital Mumbai which left hundreds dead.

India will also ask for the deportation of Maulana Masood Azhar and Hafiz Sayed who head the Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba militant groups respectively, media reports Monday quoted Duggal as saying.

The two groups are among many battling Indian security forces in the disputed region of Kashmir.

New Delhi will ask Islamabad to dismantle what it says are "terrorist training camps" in its territories, including its portion of Kashmir, Duggal told Zee Television.

India accuses Pakistan of training Islamic rebels to bolster the rebellion in Indian-administered Kashmir, a charge it denies.

"When we say terrorist camps should not be there, they should not be; when we say fake Indian currency should not be pumped into India, it should not be; and similarly when we say fugitives who are international criminals and have been indulging in anti-national and terrorist activities should face the process of law, they should," Duggal said.

Pakistani home secretary Syed Kamal Shah told reporters Sunday that Islamabad, too, was keen to discuss the subject of prisoners.