February 4, 2002	Monday	Ziqa’ad 20, 1422

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NEW YORK, Feb 3: Pakistan’s finance minister Shaukat Aziz and the finance minister of India, Yashwant Sinha, met on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on Saturday.

ACCORDING TO AZIZ: “we simply exchanged pleasantries and the forum activities.”

India has fielded a sixty-man delegation to the World Economic Forum meetings, and Pakistan is being represented by it’s finance minister who is being facilitated by the officials of Pakistan embassy.

Ikram Saigal, a Pakistani businessman, is also attending the WEF meetings, and so is the writer Ahmed Rashid, who is promoting his new book.

Aziz told Dawn at one of the many receptions held at the WEF, former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Senator Hillary Clinton applauded President Musharraf’s brave stand against terrorism and extremism in Pakistan.