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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will have an unstructured dialogue when the latter arrives in New Delhi on April 16 to watch the last match in the ongoing India-Pakistan cricket series.
A senior Pakistan high commission official talking exclusively to rediff.com said no major breakthroughs are expected from the discussions, but both countries will strengthen their commitment to confidence building measures they have agreed to and some of which have already been implemented.
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One of the important outcomes could be a reduction of troops in Jammu and Kashmir if the talks between Dr Singh and Musharraf move smoothly on April 16 and 17. More CBMs in the form of a few more bus and train routes are also expected.
National Security Advisor M K Narayanan was quoted in an interview saying that 'on the table, Pakistan has produced very few proposals on Kashmir. We remain unsure what the Generalsaheb wants.'
Narayanan, the most important figure emerging in talks with Pakistan and other important countries like China, said: 'The Pakistan president has not come out openly to suggest A,B,C. He keeps talking in broad terms of the wishes of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Does he know what the people of Jammu