Washington -Intelligence agencies from India and Pakistan have started sharing information with each other on counter-terrorism, a significant development that has quietly been pushed by the Obama Administration with some success this year, reports Indian daily The Pioneer. The paper claimed that although there is a long way to go in intelligence sharing between India and Pakistan, given the trust deficit between the two South Asian rivals, a small beginning, but significant one, in this regard was made during the Commonwealth Games in October and India visit of President Barack Obama in November. The nature of information sharing is being kept a closely guarded secret because officials of the three countries want to keep this development away from pubic glare as they are afraid of the sensitivities about it in the sub-continent. Sharing of counter-terrorism intelligence information between the intelligence agencies of India and Pakistan has started, a Pakistani diplomatic source based in Washington said on condition of anonymity. Without going into details, the diplomat said the Pakistani intelligence agency provided all the information that was asked for by India during both the Commonwealth games and the Obama visit and noted that the US has been a part and parcel of this information sharing. This is a new beginning, a senior administration official said, hoping that such a development would be of great help in this war against terrorism. Both the administrative official and diplomatic sources acknowledged that there is a huge trust deficit between the intelligence agencies of the two countries and they are taking one step at a time in this regard. However, they exuded confidence that once the process has begun it would continue. CIA Director Leon Panetta is understood to have personally praised ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha for having agreed to the share intelligence information they have with Indian intelligence agencies so as to prevent any major terrorist attack. Pakistani diplomatic sources conceded that there have been mistakes in the past, but argued that Pakistan under a civilian rule is different. Both the Army and ISI are determined to take action against all kind of terrorist. It is only a matter of time. There is going to be no discrimination between good and bad terrorist. But Pakistan has to be given some time to prove its point, the diplomat said.