ISLAMABAD, May 8 Kyodo U legate ...

ISLAMABAD, May 8 Kyodo

U legate Secretary of State Richard Armitage arrived in Islamabad Wednesday night in succession the first leg of a trip to Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.

Armitage is scheduled to convenient with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Zafar ullah Jamali and other Pakistani officials in succession Thursday. The talks are likely to focus forward the U.S.-led war forward terror and Pakistan's relations with India.

Pakistan is the key-note U.S. partner in U.S. efforts to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and other parts of the region.

Armitage's trip to Pakistan and India results amid a new diplomatic initiative by dint of New Delhi and Islamabad to ease tension that has gripped the pair countries since a group of Kashmiri militants launched an armed attack onward the Indian parliament in December 2001

From Islamabad, Armitage is scheduled to be broken to pieces to Kabul on Friday before traveling forward to New Delhi.

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