Comprehensive wrap of day two of summit, latest briefings

(16 Jul 2001)
1. Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee comes out of Jaypee Palace Hotel
2. Limousine carrying Pakistan President Musharraf drives in
3. Pakistan President Musharraf gets out of car
4. Musharaf and Vajpayee shake hands and smile for reporters
5. Crush of media outside hotel
6. Wide-shot of Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
7. Pan from Vajpayee to Musharraf (man in between them with coloured scarf is the host, the Governor of the State of Uttar Pradesh)
8. Vajpayee and Musharraf stand next to dinner table
9. Vajpayee seated at table
10. Musharraf seated at table next to Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh (on left)
11. Close up of Musharraf
12. Pan from tables to musicians
13. Close up of musical instrument
14. Musharraf seated at table next to Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh (on left)
15. Wide shot of dinner
16. Musharraf studying dinner menu
17. Wide shot of dinner
18. Reporters in media centre
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nirupama Rao, Indian government spokeswoman
"The President of Pakistan has extended an invitation to the Prime Minister of India to visit Pakistan. The invitation has been accepted. Thank you very much."
20. Media around Qureshi
21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Brigadier Rashid Qureshi, Pakistan spokesman
"What is the point of wasting your time and wasting your film?"
Q. Your mood says you are really happy with the talks?
A. "No, I am quite taken in by the level of enthusiasm and the pushing and pulling."
22. Cutaway of reporters at media centre
NIGHT SHOTS
23. Hindu pilgrims at Agra pilgrimage
STORYLINE:
The leaders of India and Pakistan opened formal talks for the first time in two years on Sunday, with the white marble domes of the Taj Mahal a symbolic backdrop to their landmark summit.
Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee appeared relaxed in front of the media before they began talking.
An official said the two leaders discussed a natural gas pipeline from Iran to India, which must pass through Pakistan.
Musharraf tried to restrict the talks to Kashmir, which is claimed by both countries, but then relented and discussed other bilateral issues such as cross-border terrorism and trade concessions.
Kashmir province is the flashpoint that has caused more than five decades of enmity between the neighbours, igniting two of their three wars since independence from Britain in 1947.
India has insisted that talks should address not only Kashmir, but also trade, regional terrorism, nuclear safeguards, drug trafficking and the resumption of cricket matches.
Later India announced that President Musharraf had invited Prime Minister Vajpayee to Pakistan which he had accepted.
In his invitation to Musharraf, Vajpayee said poverty was the common enemy of the two countries, whose economies support more than one fifth of the world's population.
Both leaders realise that if they can end their deep enmity the mushrooming of trade and investment that would follow would greatly ease the poverty plaguing their countries.
And then in the evening President Musharraf and 250 other guests at the official banquet worked their way through a 15-course dinner from as many provinces in India.
The summit has provoked intense media interest and hundreds of journalists from all over the world followed the two leaders when the summit convened in Agra.
Security was intense, with riot police and barricades lining the roads.

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