NEW DELHI: India's prime minister and Pakistan's president are ‘likely’ to
hold face-to-face talks on Tuesday on the sidelines of a regional summit in
Russia.
Indian premier Manmohan Singh and Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari will
both be in Yekaterinburg for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
meeting.
‘A meeting on the sidelines is likely,’ the Indian foreign ministry official
told AFP.
Separately, an official who is organising summit meetings told Reuters that
Singh and Zardari plan to meet on Tuesday.
The two will meet in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, the official said.
‘According to our information a bilateral Indian-Pakistani meeting is
tentatively planned for tomorrow,’ the official, who asked not to be named,
said. The exact format of the meeting was still unclear, he said.
It would be the first time the two leaders have met since last November's Mumbai
attacks, which India has blamed on Pakistan-based militants. |
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