Kasuri Arrives Delhi Today for Pakistan-India Joint Commission Meeting  
'Pakistan Times' Monitoring Report

NEW DELHI (India): Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri will arrive tomorrow to attend meeting of Pakistan-India Joint Commission to be held on Feb. 21 at Hyderabad House.

After the meeting signing ceremony of agreement on "Reducing the Risk from accidents relating to Nuclear Weapons" will be held. Joint press interaction by the two Foreign Ministers will also be held.

Kasuri will also meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh besides meeting with Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K Advani.

He will also meet Kashmiri leaders including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Abdul Ghani Bhat, Bilal Ghani Lone, Maulana Abbas Ansari, Agha Hassan Badghami, Shabbir Ahmed Shah and Muhammed Yasin Malik.

Prior to meeting of Joint Commission, group meetings will be held and recommendations of the groups will be presented to the Commission. Kasuri Departs for Pakistan on Feb. 23.

Agreement about Nuclear Weapons

Meanwhile, another report says that India and Pakistan will ink an agreement on reducing the risk of accidental use of nuclear weapons on Feb 21 when the foreign Ministers of the two countries will meet here.

Agreements on preventing incidents at sea and speedy return of inadvertent border crossers are also expected to be signed after talks between External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his Pakistani counterpart Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri.

Mukherjee and Kasuri will review the entire gamut of bilateral relations and review progress made on various issues during their second structured meeting in over a month time.

Pakistan's Foreign Minister will arrive here on Tuesday for his three-day visit to New Delhi to attend the meeting of Indo-Pak Joint Commission.

The understanding to ink the agreement was reached during the foreign secretary-level talks here on November 14 and it was endorsed at a meeting between the foreign ministers in Islamabad on January 13. However, the pact could not be inked due to the absence of a nod from the Cabinet.

Progress on resolving the Sir Creek dispute will also be reviewed at the talks between both the Ministers.●