ISLAMABAD: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will meet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during the first visit to India by a Pakistani head of state since 2005, said his spokesman, relations between nuclear rivals in its warm years.
The spokesman Farhatullah Babar said in a statement that Zardari has accepted an invitation to lunch Singh. The pair will meet in New Delhi on Sunday.
Zardari is also expected to visit a shrine to a revered Sufi saint in Ajmer during the one-day visit.
Indian media have quoted government sources as saying he hoped there would have formal talks.
Pakistan and India lasting peace is seen as vital for stability in South Asia and dangerous smooth the transition in Afghanistan as most of the combat forces of NATO are preparing to retire at the end of 2014.
The atmosphere between the two has improved after a series of high level meetings and the recent promise to give its neighbor Pakistan the status of most favored nation trade.
In November, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Singh met in the Maldives and undertook to open a new chapter in its turbulent history.
Distrust, border clashes and militant attacks have destabilized the region since the two nations were carved out of colonial India in 1947, with the disputed region of Kashmir in the center of tensions.
They fought three wars since independence out of Britain and its border is still full of soldiers.
The spokesman Farhatullah Babar said in a statement that Zardari has accepted an invitation to lunch Singh. The pair will meet in New Delhi on Sunday.
Zardari is also expected to visit a shrine to a revered Sufi saint in Ajmer during the one-day visit.
Indian media have quoted government sources as saying he hoped there would have formal talks.
Pakistan and India lasting peace is seen as vital for stability in South Asia and dangerous smooth the transition in Afghanistan as most of the combat forces of NATO are preparing to retire at the end of 2014.
The atmosphere between the two has improved after a series of high level meetings and the recent promise to give its neighbor Pakistan the status of most favored nation trade.
In November, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Singh met in the Maldives and undertook to open a new chapter in its turbulent history.
Distrust, border clashes and militant attacks have destabilized the region since the two nations were carved out of colonial India in 1947, with the disputed region of Kashmir in the center of tensions.
They fought three wars since independence out of Britain and its border is still full of soldiers.
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