Zardari to visit Kabul Thursday
November 17th, 2009 - 9:28 pm ICT by IANS
- Islamabad, Nov 17 (IANS) Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will pay an official visit to Afghanistan Thursday to attend the oath taking ceremony in Kabul by President Hamid Karzai for his second term in office.
Diplomatic sources told Online news agency that the president will be accompanied, among others, by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
The sources said the president, during his stay in Kabul, will hold a round table meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Washington’s new Af-Pak strategy.
Karzai was the chief guest at Zardari’s Sep 6, 2008 oath taking ceremony.
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