SAARC summit to go ahead: Jamali

December 27, 2003
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Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali said Friday that the suicide attack on the motorcade of President Pervez Musharraf would not upset the South Asian summit scheduled here for January 4, AFP reported from Islamabad.

“It will be held on schedule,” he told reporters after chairing a ruling party meeting. Jamali said that the security system would be ‘revamped” in the country following the twin suicide bombings. Jamali said the government had ” found some clues” to the suicide attack on the president, but he refused to divulge details.

Nepal Friday condemned the “heinous” and “deplorable acts of terrorism.” Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa leaves for Pakistan Jan.2 to lead the Nepali delegation to the 12th SAARC summit. nepalnews.com br Dec.27