Aziz also met with separatist leaders from theIndian-controlled portion of Kashmir at a dinner hosted byPakistan's ambassador. The Indian Express newspaperreported that the separatists reiterated their demand to bemade a party to India-Pakistan talks on Kashmir. "We want a seat at the peace table," the report quotedYasin Malik, chairman of Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, assaying. "If not, we will launch a nonviolent agitation." Aziz's visit is part of a regional tour as the outgoingchairman of the seven-nation South Asian Association forRegional Cooperation, or SAARC. On Wednesday, Aziz also met Indian Petroleum and NaturalGas Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar to discuss the prospects ofa proposed US$3 billion (¤2.4 billion) pipeline throughPakistan linking India to Iran's massive gas fields. Aziz was to conclude his visit later Wednesday by meetingIndian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Commerce andIndustry Minister Kamal Nath.--SPA1241 Local Time 0941 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/219312
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