Rival Indian, Pakistani PMs break ice

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ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali met for almost half an hour in their first ever bilateral meeting, ministers and officials said.

"The meeting is going on between the prime ministers," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid told AFP. "Foreign ministers, foreign secretaries of both the countries are also there.

The nature of the talks was not immediately clear but they are the first between the bitter nuclear rivals since they came to the brink of war in 2002.

"The meeting has taken place, it was a good meeting," Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri told reporters.

The surprise talks came just ahead of Kasuri's own meeting with his Indian counterpart Yashwant Sinha, at...