India, Pakistan Head Into Summit Amid Tension

04/06/2001| IslamWeb

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Indian and Pakistani leaders will attend a regional summit on Friday as their armies stare one another down in a confrontation causing concern around the world, but they may not use the gathering to talk peace.
The nuclear-capable neighbors showed no signs of a thaw as they prepared for the three-day meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in the Nepali capital.
Neither state held out much hope that Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf would hold one-on-one talks on the sidelines of the conference for the first time since a failed summit in July.
The SAARC summit itself had been repeatedly postponed because of tensions between their states.
On the eve of the conference, India released a list of requests that New Delhi has made over the past decade to Pakistan to hand over those charged with carrying out acts of terror in the country.
Among them were those India says were behind an attack on India's parliament that killed 14, including the five assailants, last month.