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ShareIslamabad: Following New Delhi's reluctance to give Islamabad a road map for resumption ofcomposite dialogue, Pakistani prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani may not travel to Port-of-Spain for the Commonwealth Summit this month where he was scheduled to meet his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh.
According to well-placed foreign office sources in Islamabad, Gilani is unlikely to attend the meeting of heads of Commonwealth states in Trinidad and Tobago from November 27 to 29.
The possibility of a Gilani-Singh meeting had created immense interest in Pakistan and India after the suspension of peace talks between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attack.
The hopes were bolstered by overtures by Manmohan which were construed as an indication of New Delhi's readiness to resume dialogue.
At the end of his recent visit to Kashmir, Singh had said there were no pre-conditions for talks and that his government was willing to discuss all issues. The Pakistan foreign office had welcomed the offer.
However, foreign office sources said Gilani was skipping the meeting with Singh because India did not respond to the road map for resumption of dialogue that foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi suggested to his Indian counterpart SM Krishna in New York, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, in September 2009.
According to the road map, the two sides were to announce resumption of composite dialogue at the prime ministers' meeting in Port-of -Spain.
