Nuclear-armed foes Pakistan, India talk peace over lunch

 abercrombie and fitch outlet NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stood side-by-side in New Delhi on Sunday at the highest-level meeting on each other's soil in seven years as the nuclear-armed foes seek to normalize ties.Relations have warmed since Pakistan promised its neighbor most favored nation trade status last year, although a $10 million bounty offered by Washington for a Pakistani Islamist blamed for the 2008 attacks on Mumbai has stirred old grievances.Without giving details, the two leaders said they discussed a wide range of issues during a "fruitful" meeting before sharing lunch. Singh said he hoped to make his first visit to Pakistan at a convenient date."We would like to have better relations with India. We have spoken on all topics that we could have spoken about and we are hoping to meet on Pakistani soil very soon," Zardari said as the two men emerged from Singh's residence.On his first visit to India as part of the 40-member delegation, Zardari's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, stood behind the leaders at the briefing, possibly a sign of his growing role in politics."Relations between India and Pakistan should become normal. That's our common desire," Singh said. "We have a number of issues and we are willing to find tactical, pragmatic solutions to all those issues and that's the message that president Zardari and I would wish to convey." The homeless residents will meet later on Saturday with officials from the Red Cross and the Navy to discuss options for housing.The Red Cross will continue to provide shelter to anyone who needs it through the weekend, said Mary Hancock, spokeswoman for the city.

 abercrombie outlet Zardari's visit proceeded as rescue teams, backed by helicopters and sniffer dogs, searched for 124 Pakistani soldiers and 11 civilians engulfed by an avalanche on Saturday near the 6,000-meter-high Siachen glacier in Kashmir -- known as the world's highest battlefield.India and Pakistan fought two wars over Siachen and hundreds have died there, mostly from the inhospitable conditions.India has yet to comment on the disaster.The continued freedom of Islamist Hafiz Saeed, suspected of masterminding an attack by Pakistan-based gunmen on India's financial capital, Mumbai, in 2008 that killed 166 people, caused some friction in the days before the meeting.India is furious Pakistan has not detained Saeed, despite handing over a dossier of evidence against him. Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Friday that anyone with concrete proof to prosecute Saeed should present it to the courts.And with Zardari and Singh both suffering major domestic problems, prospects are low for fixing the complex stand-off over disputed Kashmir, the trigger of two of three wars between the two countries since independence from Britain in 1947.Lasting Pakistan-India peace would go a long way to smoothing a perilous transition in Afghanistan as most NATO combat forces prepare to leave by the end of 2014.

 cheap abercrombie uk India and Pakistan fought their most recent war in 1999, shortly after both sides declared they possessed nuclear weapons. Hundreds died on the disputed border in Kashmir before Pakistani troops and militants were forced to withdraw.Zardari is also due to visit the shrine in western India of a revered Sufi Muslim saint seen as a symbol of harmony between South Asia's often competing religions.Born in a village in what is now Pakistan, Singh has pushed for peace during his two terms in office, but his efforts were knocked off track by the 2008 ouster of former President Pervez Musharraf, with whom he had built trust.The three-day rampage by 10 Pakistani gunmen in Mumbai later that year derailed the peace process - aimed at finding a solution to Kashmir and other feuds along one of the world's most heavily armed borders. Talks only resumed a year ago.Informal meetings, during international cricket matches, or in this case before Zardari's pilgrimage to the Sufi shrine, have become the hallmark of Singh's diplomacy.In November, Singh met Gilani in the Maldives and promised to open a new chapter in their troubled history.Hopes are focused on resolving the conflict at the Siachen glacier and a dispute over an oil-rich river estuary called Sir Creek.

 abercrombie and fitch uk Musharraf, the last Pakistani head of state to visit India in 2005, has said both issues were as good as fixed while he was in office. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All residents of an apartment complex for the elderly in Virginia that was destroyed when a U.S. Navy fighter jet crashed into it on Friday have been accounted for, and everyone injured have been discharged from a hospital, rescue officials said on Saturday.Many residents are now seeking somewhere to live after spending last night in a Red Cross shelter, officials said."Everyone has been accounted for" at the Mayfair Mews complex in Virginia Beach, the city's fire Chief Tim Riley told Reuters, after crews had searched into the night for three missing residents since the crash. "We are not actively looking for anyone."The crash injured seven people in all, including both crew members, and damaged six buildings. A navy official said on Saturday afternoon that an aviator who had spent the night in the hospital has now been discharged.Officials who scoured the blackened shells for bodies and civilians who witnessed the incident said they were amazed no one was killed or seriously injured in the fiery crash."We're considered very fortunate for this event," Riley said.Admiral John Harvey of U.S. Navy thanked fire and police officials for the "amazing miracle ... where no one died as we know it" during a news conference.

abercrombie uk He also thanked the city's citizens, who he said pulled the navy's aircrew to safety, dragged fire hoses into place and helped evacuate residents from the apartment complex."It was a pretty amazing display in Virginia Beach of what citizenship really means," Harvey said.Rescue crews, though, have not yet issued an "all-clear" and continue combing through layers of debris to make sure no passers-by or others lie beneath the rubble. As of Saturday morning there have been no reports of missing people, Riley said."We have a high level of certainty, 95 or 96 certain that no one is there. But we can't be 100 percent certain" until the clean-up is finished, he said.The U.S. Navy F/A-18 jet fighter suffered what a Pentagon official described as "a catastrophic mechanical malfunction" during a training flight before it crashed shortly after take-off. Both crew members ejected and one was found still strapped into his ejection seat.Thick black clouds of smoke billowed into the air as fire reduced the apartment buildings to a blackened shell. The Mayfair Mews complex was less than two miles from Naval Air Station Oceana, where the F-18 was based.Navy officials said a thorough investigation into the crash could take several weeks. They have not yet listened to the flight recorders onboard the plane, they said.Riley said officials are now attending to the needs of the 60 or so residents whose apartment units were destroyed,