INDIA PAKISTAN

ATTENTION EDITORS - QUALITY REPEAT COL01:INDIA-PAKISATNI:COLOMBO,29JUL98 - Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee offers a bottle of water to his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif July 29 during the opening ceremony of the three-day summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo. Vajpayee and Sharif are to meet later on Wednsday for their first meeting since two countries conducted nuclear test in May. al/Photo by Anuruddha Lokuhapuarachchi REUTERS