Indian women's team calls on Musharraf

By Amit Baruah

ISLAMABAD, MARCH 27 In the first-ever contact of its kind, members of a 39-strong Indian women's delegation on a peace mission called on the Pakistan Chief Executive, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, at his Rawalpindi residence yesterday. The team included Ms. Nirmala Deshpande, Gandhian, and Ms. Mohini Giri, former chief of the National Commission for Women.

The women, who will be in Pakistan for almost a week, had an hour-long meeting with Gen. Musharraf who is said to have reiterated his view that dialogue between India and Pakistan would have to be a ``reciprocal affair''. When some women raised the objectives of the peace mission, the General reportedly stated: ``I am with you.'' He also said that New Delhi had scuttled the SAARC summit at Kathmandu so as to avoid contact with him.

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