'Guidelines' likely for Indo-Pak. meet

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, AUG. 27. The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, and the Pakistani President, General Pervez Musharraf, may define ``guidelines'' to move forward the budding Indo-Pak. peace process during their meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly session at New York next month.

According to the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, the two leaders are expected to ``pick up the threads'' of their ``inconclusive'' discussions during the Agra summit.

The spokesperson pointed out that Mr. Vajpayee had decided to meet Gen. Musharraf after Pakistan made a formal request for the meeting. The Pakistani High Commissioner to India, Mr. Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, conveyed to the Foreign Secretary, Ms. Chokila Iyer, on Friday of General Musharraf's desire to invite Mr. Vajpayee for a meeting during the UNGA meeting at New York.

India's Permanent mission in New York will now tie up the details of the time and venue for the talks, she observed.

Indian and Pakistani delegations at Agra had discussed possible formulations and mechanisms to address the Kashmir issue as well as cross-border terrorism. Prior to the summit, India had unilaterally announced a series of Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) including the opening of a road link between Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

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