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Zardari arrives in Delhi, to meet Manmohan Singh over lunch | Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari arrived here on Sunday
afternoon for his daylong trip to Ajmer to pay obeisance at the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti. Zardari will be meeting Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh during
his three-hour stopover in Delhi. It will be Zardari's first visit to India as
Pakistan 's President, and will provide a chance to promote bilateral ties between
both sides. According to media reports, the US bounty on Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD)
chief Mohammad Hafiz Saeed is likely to be the prime focus of the talks between
Zardari and Dr. Singh who will be meeting after almost three years. The two leaders
had last met on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Russia in 2009. Though Zardari's
visit is personal in nature, it is bound to have strong ramification on the relations
between the two nations. New Delhi had suspended the peace process between the
two sides after the commando-style militant attacks in India ' commercial capital
Mumbai in 2008, blaming Pakistan-based militants for the death of 166 people.
Since then, officials from the two nations have met to improve ties, but have
shied away from resuming the dialogue that included resolving key differences,
including dispute over Jammu and Kashmir . Zardari had earlier visited the sufi
saint's shrine in 2005, with his wife, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir
Bhutto. Benazir, who was assassinated on December 27, 2007, was a firm believer
of Chishti. India and Pakistan, which have fought three wars since their independence
from British rule in 1947, have been slowly trying to repair relations and agreed
to resume formal peace talks broken off in the wake of the Mumbai attack in 2008.
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