Pakistan's Zardari greets new Indian counterpart
PAKISTAN: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari Monday congratulated
Pranab Mukherjee, the newly elected president of South Asian rival
India.
"It gives me great pleasure to extend to you warm greetings and
felicitations on your well-deserved election to the high office of the
President of the Republic of India," Zardari said in a message addressed
to Mukherjee.
"We wish Your Excellency long life, health and happiness and
continued progress and prosperity to the people of India."
The nuclear-armed neighbours have fought three wars since
independence in 1947, but in 2010 resumed a fragile peace process
suspended by the 2008 Mumbai attacks blamed on Pakistani gunmen. AFP
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