New Delhi: Ahead of his trip to India, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri on Monday night hinted that there is every likelihood of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf visiting New Delhi to take part in the SAARC summit in April.
Reversing his earlier stand that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should visit Islamabad first, Musharraf seems to have changed his mind.
"In our case the President and Prime Minister either of them can attend. That has been our practice and they have been doing so in the past. Whatever I said stands where it is and I am not going to draw any conclusions," Kasuri said.
Kasuri's remarks that "either of them" could attend SAARC summit were significant because it was at Pakistan's insistence that External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee had extended the invitation to Aziz whereas New Delhi earlier wanted to invite Musharraf.
Kasuri had remarked a day ahead of Mukherjee's Islamabad visit that it was unlikely for Musharraf to attend SAARC summit in New Delhi as it was the turn of Singh to come to Pakistan.
(With PTI inputs)
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