New Delhi : Did India and Pakistan have an agreed draft statement before the 2001 Agra summit collapsed as has repeatedly been claimed in Pakistan?
Jaswant Singh, who was External Affairs Minister during the summit, throws some light on this abiding argument in his memoirs A Call to Honour which hit the stands on Friday.
Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Abdul Sattar had been told at the summit in July 2001 to attempt a draft and together we tried our hand at writing something on a piece of paper.
I attempted something in pencil on a piece of paper, he corrected/amended it, I did likewise and so it went on for sometime, to and fro. Finally, he said he would have to consult his President (Gen Pervez Musharraf) before he could assent or disagree, Singh says.
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