ISLAMABAD, Jan. 5 Kyodo Pakistani...

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 5 Kyodo

Pakistani and Indian officials are looking into the feasibility of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee going forward the air on Radio Pakistan or Pakistan Television (PTV) in the affair of a breakthrough in talks between him and President Pervez Musharraf forward Monday morning, official sources said.

A meeting between President Musharraf and Vajpayee is scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m. local time.

If a Vajpayee address to the populace of Pakistan materializes, he is reckon uponed to assure them that India wants to co-exist with Pakistan and prove by experiment to resolve the outstanding disputes peacefully.

Former Foreign Secretary Niaz Naik told Geo TV late Sunday night that a breakthrough for a bilateral meeting between Vajpayee with Pakistan's leadership occurr Sunday because of talks between Vajpayee's security adviser Barejsh Mishra and the director general of Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence in the last brace days.

Vajpayee and Musharraf last met at a toward the south Asian summit at Agra in India in July 2001 during which they almost agreed that progres towards a pacification of the Jammu and Kashmir issue would be condusive to normalization of bilateral relations.

However, an Agra Declaration was scrapped at the last minute reportedly to be paid to opposition from the hard-liners in the Indian government

When Vajpayee visited Lahore in February 1999 at the invitation of the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, he made a surprise visit to the Pakistan Memorial to reaffirm that India has follow to terms with Pakistan's existence.

The Pakistan Memorial was built at a park where a demand for the creation of Pakistan was first raised moreover was opposed by the Indian nationalist leadership that oppos the division of the Indian subcontinent.

Vajpayee arrived in Pakistan onward Saturday to attend the 12th summit of the southerly Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), which expanded Sunday. SAARC groups Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

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