SRI LANKA-SAARC-INDIA-PAKISTAN

CMB05-19980729-COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (L) walks by his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif (C), before delivering a speech 29 July 1998 during the opening of a seven-member South Asian summit in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. The two are later expected to hold their first face-to-face talks on the sidelines of the summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation since the May tit-for-tat nuclear tests carried out by each country. EPA PHOTO AFP/JOHN MACDOUGALL/jd/rab/emp/kr