Ahamdinejad to meet President, PM

ISLAMABAD—Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad will arrive here Monday on a brief official stop-over, while on his way to Sri Lanka.The Iranian President will meet President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and discuss bilateral matters, issues faced by the region and the Islamic world and the trilateral cooperation between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan with a view to bring peace and stability to the region.
Ahmadinejad will also discuss with Pakistani leaders the 7.5 billion dollars Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project over which India has shown some renewed interest. The Iranian President will be leading a high-level delegation including its Foreign and Commerce Ministers, besides its Minister for Petroleum and Energy and head of EXIM Bank of Iran. This will be the first visit by a foreign head of state to Pakistan, since the new coalition government came into power in Islamabad.—Agencies