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India offers to help Pak to conduct rescue work in Siachen | The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh,
on Sunday offered assistance to Pakistan to find survivors after an avalanche engulfed a Pakistani Army camp in Siachen Glacier. The Pakistani military relaunched
its rescue efforts to find survivors on Sunday, as all 135 soldiers are feared
dead. No survivors had been found on Saturday after an all-day search involving
more than 150 Pakistani soldiers. "The PM mentioned that he had heard the news
about the avalanche, which caused the feared death of a very large number of soldiers
and said, if there was something humanitarian that was required of us, we would
be happy to be of assistance," said Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai after the
meeting between Dr. Singh and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. "The President
thanked PM for this and said they would check and if there was any requirement,
they would come back to us," he added. Zardari, who arrived here on Sunday for
his daylong visit to offer prayers at the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moninuddin
Chisti, flew back to Rawalpindi this evening. Zardari, who prayed at the Sufi
shrine here along with his 23-year-old son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari amidst tight
security, offered a grant of Rs. five crores on behalf of his government for the
shrine. Both Zardari and his son Bilawal Bhutto offered 'chadars' at the dargah.
"The soulful happiness that I have experienced at this holy place is beyond explanation.
I pray to Allah to make life easy for the entire humanity," Zardari wrote in a
diary at the dargah. Zardari had earlier visited the Sufi saint's shrine in 2005,
with his wife, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto. Earlier in the
day, Zardari had very fruitful and constructive talks with Indian Prime Minister
Dr. Manmohan Singh during his stopover in Delhi . Both the sides expressed satisfaction
with today's talks, and showed keen interest in finding practical, pragmatic solutions
to all issues. The two leaders in their discussions noted that there had been
steady progress in the dialogue process, which was restarted last year. Zardari
also invited the Indian Prime Minister to visit Pakistan , which the latter happily
accepted. New Delhi had suspended the peace process between the two sides after
the commando-style militant attacks in India 's commercial capital Mumbai in 2008,
by Pakistan-based militants, which caused the death of 166 people. 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 wake of the Mumbai attack in 2008. |
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