The three-day Agra Summit represents the most significant diplomatic encounter between India and Pakistan in recent years.
President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee are expected to discuss bilateral relations, the decades-old dispute over Kashmir and their nuclear rivalry. Musharraf will be the first Pakistani leader to visit India in 14 years.
Ever since the partition of the sub-continent along largely religious lines, the two countries have been bitter rivals. Their animosity has escalated into an arms race resulting in nuclear capability on both sides.
There are hopes that the summit and its aftermath will pave the way for more diplomacy, and closer ties between the two countries. However, can the two South Asian heavyweights break away from decades of mutual suspicion and mistrust? Will there be a compromise on Kashmir? |
