Wouldn't that be one-on-two?
Pakistan and India have scheduled one-on-one meetings of President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee during the SAARC summit. While officials sources from the two countries including the visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Shashank said that no decision has been made about Mr Vajpayee meeting the president and the prime minister, western diplomats in Islamabad said they had been told that Mr Vajpayee would indeed call on President Musharraf. They said an announcement to the effect would be made by India immediately before the summit.
| Could be why they didn't announce it when asked... |
Mr Shashank, who crossed into Pakistan on Tuesday, said Prime Minister Vajpayee would meet President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali on different occasions during the SAARC summit but no one-on-one meeting between them has been decided. Mr Shashank said South Asia was facing various problems, which would be discussed at the summit. To a query about the solution of the Kashmir dispute, he said Pakistan should verify whether infiltration from across the Line of Control into India had ceased or not âafter which talks about Kashmir might start. If we can become part of an international coalition for the war against terror, we can also do that at a regional level.â |