PM, Zardari shook hands before their meeting

Ajay Kaul

Yekaterinburg (Russia), June 16 (PTI) Ahead of their
first meeting since the Mumbai terror attacks, India's Prime
Minister Manmmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali
Zardari Tuesday shook hands when they came face-to-face at the
SCO summit here.

Singh and Zardari shook hands after they posed for a
group photo with leaders of other Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation member nations -- Russia, China, Kazakhstan,
Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.

The two leaders shook hands and posed for photographs
at the summit venue here.

Singh and Zardari are set to meet here this afternoon
on the sidelines of the summit, the first highest level
contact between India and Pakistan since the Mumbai terror
attacks.

Besides SCO summit, the Indian Prime Minister will
also attend the summit of Brazil-Russia-India-China (BRIC).

Ahead of his departure on Monday, Singh said India was
ready to play its role in global effots to overcome the
economic slowdown. PTI