Kasuri to leave for India today

ISLAMABAD—Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmmod Kasuri would arrive in New Delhi on a four-day private visit Saturday.
Kasuri will be in India to attend the wedding of Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar’s daughter. Indian and Pakistani officials would like a meeting between the two foreign ministers. External Affairs Minister Mukherjee is likely to host a “goodwill lunch” for Kasuri at Hyderabad House Monday. If that happens, both foreign ministers would review the results of talks held in New Delhi a few days back.
Ahead of the two-day foreign-secretary talks that concluded here Nov 15, Kasuri had told Pakistani media that a solution to the Siachen dispute was just a “matter of days”. According to Pakistani diplomatic sources, both foreign ministers would work out the details of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Pakistan. President Musharraf had invited Manmohan Singh to visit Pakistan on several occasion, which the later had accepted. During this visit Kasuri would also meet other Indian leaders and would talk on Kashmir dispute, Siachen, Sir Creek and other issues.—Online