Kabul, November 19: Foreign Minister SM Krishna came face to face with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi Thursday at a luncheon here after Hamid Karzai was sworn-in as Afghanistan President for a second term.
Krishna and Qureshi were seated next to each other at the luncheon hosted by Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta, also attended by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The two are here to attend the swearing in ceremony of Karzai, who was administered the oath of office for a second five-year Presidential term today.
Krishna and Qureshi had earlier met on September 27 on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York with progress on the Mumbai attacks case as the focus of their discussion.
Krishna had told Qureshi that India was concerned over the terror threat still emanating from Pakistan’s soil.
Karzai’s swearing in was held at a grand ceremony at the heavily-fortified Presidential Palace in the presence of 800 guests, with the Afghan President vowing to form a national unity government following a controversial poll marred by allegations of fraud.
—-Agencies