Paris: It’s now official.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be meeting his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday morning - who will be calling on him at his hotel in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El Sheikh on the sidelines of the NAM summit.
The meeting will come two days after the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan meet on Tuesday and discuss Pakistan’s actions against those responsible for the Mumbai attacks.
But while the Mumbai attacks issue was important, terrorists and terror attacks against India would also be discussed when Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon meets his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in the Egyptian town of Sharm-el-Sheikh on the sidelines of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) summit Tuesday evening, an official said.
A dossier on the Mumbai terror attacks was handed by Pakistani internal security minister Rehman Malik to Indian charge d' affaire Manpreet Vora in Islamabad on Saturday, sources say.
Pakistani officials say they are hopeful the two leaders will come out of the meeting with a roadmap for returning to the composite dialogue process. Some signs of a thaw are already being seen:
- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s clarification on President Zardari’s snub
- Meeting of the ISI chief Shuja Pasha with military attaches in Islamabad
- Pakistan’s handing over of the terror dossier on Mumbai
- Indian officials concede “some steps” have been taken by Pakistan on Mumbai
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