Albright, Advani discuss Indo-Pak peace

The recent Indo-Pak peace gestures and Kashmir came up for discussion as former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright met Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani in New Delhi on Friday.

The two leaders also deliberated upon the Indo-US relations besides Pakistan and Afghanistan during the nearly 30-minute meeting prior to Albright's discussions with National Security Adviser and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Brajesh Mishra and some other functionaries of the government.

The secretary of state in the Bill Clinton government later told reporters that the discussions centred around Indo-US

relations and general situation in Kashmir, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Albright, who is here to attend the two-day conference on 'Peace dividend: Progress for India and South Asia', said she has had an "abiding interest" in Kashmir for her entire life.

She said she is interested in the recent "overtures" between India and Pakistan and wanted to know "how much more
work has to be done."