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Mystery over change in Krishna's schedule persists
KRISHNA
New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI) The mystery about the last-
minute switch in India's External Affairs Minister's meetings
with Pakistani leaders persists with S M Krishna himself
saying that he doesn't know the reason.
The sudden change in his schedule on the afternoon of
July 15 in Islamabad in the midst of his discussions with his
Pakistani counterpart S M Qureshi has generated considerable
speculation as to how the script may have gone wrong.
"The order of my meetings was changed. I came to know
only when I was going. They said I would be meeting the
President first and then the Prime Minister. I do not know
what was the reason," Krishna told PTI.
Krishna and Qureshi were said to have made good
progress during their first session of talks which started at
11 am and lasted for nearly five hours, well beyond the
schedule.
The minister's schedule was to leave at 3.20 pm and to
reach Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's office to
meet him at 3.30 pm. The call on President Asif Ali Zardari
was to follow at 5.30 pm at the Presidential palace.
In the time slot Krishna was to meet Gilani,
Pakistan's powerful army Chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani met the
Prime Minister. Kayani had also met Zardari.
When the talks resumed after Krishna's two call-ons,
the atmosphere totally changed and Pakistan took an
unexpectedly stringent posture leading to the deadlock at the
talks.
Many commentators in India feel that it was Pakistani
Army which put spokes in the way of progress between India and
Pakistan.
Krishna did not want to go into the details of what
went wrong but insisted that his meetings with both leaders
went off very well and that was what matters. PTI PYK
MRD
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New Delhi, Jul 22 (PTI) The mystery about the last-
minute switch in India's External Affairs Minister's meetings
with Pakistani leaders persists with S M Krishna himself
saying that he doesn't know the reason.
The sudden change in his schedule on the afternoon of
July 15 in Islamabad in the midst of his discussions with his
Pakistani counterpart S M Qureshi has generated considerable
speculation as to how the script may have gone wrong.
"The order of my meetings was changed. I came to know
only when I was going. They said I would be meeting the
President first and then the Prime Minister. I do not know
what was the reason," Krishna told PTI.
Krishna and Qureshi were said to have made good
progress during their first session of talks which started at
11 am and lasted for nearly five hours, well beyond the
schedule.
The minister's schedule was to leave at 3.20 pm and to
reach Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's office to
meet him at 3.30 pm. The call on President Asif Ali Zardari
was to follow at 5.30 pm at the Presidential palace.
In the time slot Krishna was to meet Gilani,
Pakistan's powerful army Chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani met the
Prime Minister. Kayani had also met Zardari.
When the talks resumed after Krishna's two call-ons,
the atmosphere totally changed and Pakistan took an
unexpectedly stringent posture leading to the deadlock at the
talks.
Many commentators in India feel that it was Pakistani
Army which put spokes in the way of progress between India and
Pakistan.
Krishna did not want to go into the details of what
went wrong but insisted that his meetings with both leaders
went off very well and that was what matters. PTI PYK
MRD
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