Breaking News: Pakistan Invites Manmohan to visit Pakistan.

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Manmohan accepts invitation to visit Pakistan: Gilani
Updated at: 0503 PST, Wednesday, April 14, 2010

WASHINGTON: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has accepted invitation to visit Pakistan, claimed Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, who had twice informal chats with Indian PM on the sideline of Nuclear Summit, which concluded here on Tuesday, Geo news reported.

In a brief media briefing after the conclusion of a two-day Nuclear Security Summit, the Premier Gilani said US expressed concerns over the power shortfall in Pakistan and US experts have shown agreement to visit Pakistan in order to rid us of the same plight.

Indian Premier Manmohan Singh has accepted my invitation to visit Pakistan soon, he maintained, adding the announcement regarding his visit will be made after two sides’ consultation.

“I had important meetings with Chinese president”; Gilani told reporters while US president Barack Obama expressed satisfaction over security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenals, he added.

Referring to Obama’s satisfaction, he said, the world’s reservations regarding Pakistan’s nuclear arms falling into hands of terrorists have also gone vanished.

“We will make independent decisions on nuclear program defying any external pressure”, he vowed.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Pakistan’s envoy to United States Hussain Haqqani were accompanying PM Gilani in media briefing.

Manmohan accepts invitation to visit Pakistan: Gilani - GEO.tv


Time to talk about peace & i am proud that it is Pakistan once again to Invite India on the Table.

I wonder if sardar ji would like Pakistan's "Lassi & Parathey"

 

[ajpirzada]

wait and see. its Geo and they have been wrong at several occasions due to their love for breaking news.
having said that, its quite possible Gilani would have made such an offer. but im still in a fix how did manmohan accept it?

 

[graphican]

Its a positive move and I would say yet another expression of maturity on behalf of yusuf Raza Gillani. People party has been bag full of deg's pile but this guys kept standing out times and again.

Good move Paksitan.. Get India talk to matters it has been running the most. Kashmir and Water Issue just to begin with.

 

[Goodperson]

What? Last time Vajpayee accepted invitation from Nawaz and visited Pakistan and Kargil happened now what ?

 

[BJlaowai]

There is a big difference in accepting invitation and really going.
Its undiplomatic to not accept an invitation for visit from one national leader to another.

 

[ajpirzada]

Please no more pak visit. Video conference is better option IMO.

No more kargil please.

yes no more siachin and kargil. only peace

 

[ajpirzada]

lik i said dont hurry. its only Geo which is saying that and there is a big possibility of this news being not correct. so cheer up indian fellows

 

[Creder]

Gilani is shapin up to be a decent leader

 

[kugga]

No body is gonna put any one behind the bars...... you people fight and no one will ask you what to do....

I don't think anything is gonna change even if manmohan visits pakistan....

 

[ARCHON]

Manmohan will surely go, after all he was born there and spend some 15 years before moving to India during partition.

 

[gogbot]

Meeting to discuss more rhetoric.

26/11 proved that the basic frame work of Indo-pak relations will never change , as long as their are those determined to fight .
what ever politics was involved was a systematic fault that has always existed.

between 2004 and 2008 their was actually progress made towards peace , attacks still happened. but none the less there was a minimal amount of trust between the two parties involved. motivated by the threat of nuclear war.

Now there is no trust,
Nuclear war is all that is stopping us from going to war . Without this the next time some one lights the fire it may not as as easy to control.

and worst of all there is no leadership in Pak.

How much power Gilanni really has compared to the army is yet to be determined.

 

[sparklingway]

You control your words.



And you two watch your mouths as well.

 

[Hammy007]

i especially dont like the chor party dealings with india. with this party present, india can get from what they want and its their greatest failure

 

[Bang Galore]

Manmohan Singh is one of the most decent, humble figure as you are ever likely to meet. Highly knowledgeable and intelligent, he is without doubt a very good and honorable man. He almost certainly wants peace with Pakistan in his tenure and would also probably like to visit the place where he was born. He is the leader of the doves among the hawks in the Indian government. His only problem: He is not Atal Behari Vajpayee. He just does not have the stature to make peace with Pakistan when there is so much acrimony and suspicion in the relationship. Vajpayee could do it for two reasons; he was the tallest leader of his party & indeed of the country and more importantly, the people of India trusted him implicitly. Manmohan Singh for all his qualities or for that matter any other present leader on the Indian stage does not inspire the same extraordinary level of trust which Vajpayee enjoyed. While there may be some leeway with Prime Minister Singh's dealings with the U.S., he is unlikely to get the same benefit when dealing with Pakistan.

Manmohan Singh can certainly move forward with peace talks with Pakistan but there will be no free ride. Every action will be analysed and critisised and I really don't think there can be substantial movement till Pakistan has been seen to have acted against the planners of 26/11.

 

[karan.1970]

Looks like its a bit of vaporware only
No invitation to visit Pak from Gilani: PM: Rediff.com India News



Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ Images ], during his interaction with the press after the conclusion of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, delivered some short, crisp answers on a host of issues.

When he was informed that Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had told the press that he had invited the PM to Islamabad [ Images ] and the latter had accepted the invitation, Dr Singh quipped to much laughter, "I am hearing it for the first time."


He acknowledged that "I did run into him twice and we exchanged pleasantries, and in fact, I complimented the prime minister on the passage of the Constitutional Amendment Bill, which I think makes the prime minister the more powerful personality in Pakistan's political system."


"But beyond that, there was no serious discussion on any other issue," he added.


Asked what he hoped to achieve in Bhutan in two weeks time on the margins of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit, when he will meet Gilani again, Dr Singh replied, "There is still time to think about the meeting in Bhutan. I think when we reach there, we will cross that bridge."


He responded with just a one-liner when he was asked about United States President Barack Obama batting for Pakistan on the issues of proliferation and the safety and security of its nuclear arsenal, which has raised eyebrows among the nonproliferation fraternity and intelligence familiar with A Q Khan's veritable black-market of nuclear know-how and technology.


"As far as our views are concerned, you have to read my statement (to the Nuclear Security Summit). That gives your our views in the matter," Dr Singh said.


When it had been pointed out to Obama that Pakistan had continued to enhance its nuclear weapons programme and there should be more pressure on Islamabad from both the US and the international community, he said, "I don't think Pakistan is playing by a different set of rules. I have actually seen progress over the last several years with respect to Pakistan's nuclear security issues."


Obama acknowledged that "I want to lower tensions in South Asia when it comes to nuclear programmes. And, I think the fact that Gilani came here, signed on to a communique and made a range of commitments -- that will make it more likely that we don't see proliferation activities or trafficking occurring out of Pakistan -- is a positive thing."


"I think that Prime Minister Gilani's presence here was an important step in assuring that we do not see a nuclear crisis anywhere in South Asia," he said.



When Dr Singh was asked whether India [ Images ] will support a civilian nuclear deal between the US and Pakistan, he said, "Who am I to interfere with what goes on between Pakistan and the United States? That's a matter for these two countries to consider and decide."