Pakistan, India PMs to meet on sidelines of NAM summit

Islamabad, July 03 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will meet his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Sharm El-Sheikh on July 16, the Pakistan Foreign Ministry has said.

”The Indian and Pakistani Foreign Secretaries will also meet on the sidelines of the summit,” it said, adding that we hope India would realize that resumption of composite dialogue process is in the interest of the two countries.

Meanwhile, a Foreign Ministry official said the two Foreign Secretaries are likely to meet in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt either on July 11 or 12.

We hope that they will agree on resumption of peace talks which India suspended after November 2008 Mumbai attack, he said.

”Pakistan was seriously conducting its investigations into the Mumbai attacks,” he said, adding,”Our experts are proceedings in a systematic manner in order to bring the culprits to book.”

–Agencies