Musharraf India Visit - Photo Gallery

Policemen stand in front of a portrait of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and his wife Begum Sehba near the Pakistan embassy in New Delhi, Friday, July 13, 2001 on the eve of Musharraf's visit to India. Musharraf arrives in New Delhi July 14, 2001 for the upcoming India-Pakistan summit to be held in the Taj City of Agra July 15.
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf may stay in this hotel 'Amar Vilas', which is shortlisted along with two other hotels at Agra, for the purpose of accommodation of the visiting President and the delegates.

The Amar Vilas hotel at Agra where Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will stay during the summit talks

One of the entrances to Amar Vilas, the hotel chosen for the stay of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Begum Sehba during summit talks in Agra.
A worker polishes the signboard of the Amar Vilas Hotel in Agra where Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will stay during the Indo-Pak summit

Artisan Atul Gupta shows a miniature Taj Mahal to a paramilitary officer who conducts a security check on the streets of Agra, Friday, July 13, 2001, the eve of Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's visit to India to attend a historic summit talks with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in the town. The sale of miniature Taj Mahal has increased as visitors purchase the memorial as a symbol of peace.
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Journalists and television cameramen take a fall after they were allegedly pushed by the security guards protecting Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, as he was leaving the Taj Mahal, in Agra Sunday, July 15, 2001. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and President Musharraf are holding historic talks in Agra on July 15-16, to discuss in part the five decade long dispute over the Kashmir valley. 
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Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf arrives at 'Neharwali Haveli', his ancestral home in New Delhi on Saturday, July 14, 2001, along with local MPs and Delhi Police Commissioner Ajay Raj Sharma.
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Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf hugging Anaro Devi, also called Kashmira, a municipal worker who recalls his childhood days, during his visit to Neharwali Haveli, his ancestral home in Daryaganj in New Delhi on Saturday.
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Residents of Rawalpindi watch TV news reporting Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf visiting India, Monday, July 16, 2001. Musharraf is on a three-day visit to India to hold summit talks with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
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Anaro Kashmiro gestures as she speaks about Neher Haveli, Wednesday, July 11, 2001 in New Delhi. Kashmiro, who used to work as a servant in Neher Haveli, recalled the days when Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf spent his childhood in the haveli before his family took him to Pakistan in 1946. Musharraf is likely to visit this haveli during his forthcoming visit on July 14 -16.
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Two local stage actors wearing the masks of Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf (left) and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee hug each other during a procession in New Delhi, Friday June 22, 2001 to send good wishes for an upcoming summit. Pakistan and India have played down high expectations for the upcoming summit on the Kashmir Valley - over which the two nations have twice gone to war - but their leaders have enormous personal stakes in the encounter.
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth wing activists, wearing `death masks' representing Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), take part in a peaceful protest in Bangalore Wednesday, July 11, 2001. The protestors urged Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to take steps towards stopping alleged ISI sponsored cross border terrorism in India. Musharraf will hold talks with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to ease tensions between the two countries during the 14-16 July summit.
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Which one will Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf prefer to travel by to the Taj Mahal from his hotel on July 15 in Agra? A horse-driven bogey or a battery-operated golf cart? The choice is limited as the Supreme Court has banned movement of polluting vehicles around the 17th century Mughal monument which had developed stains on its marble due to excessive vehicular emission.
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf with Dileep Padgaonkar, Executive Managing Editor, The Times of India. 
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Workers clear rubble after demolishing a makeshift home attached to the Nehar Haveli (Canalside Mansion) in New Delhi Wednesday, July 11, 2001, where Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf spent part of his childhood before his family shifted in 1946 to what became Pakistan. Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will hold a historic summit in the Taj city of Agra July 15.
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A file photo of the living room of the Kohinoor suite of Amar Vilas hotel in Agra with a view of Taj Mahal where Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and his wife will be staying during the forthcoming Indo-Pak summit.
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Shiv Sena activists protest as they were not allowed to wash the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi with holy Ganges water to purify it in New Delhi, Sunday, July 15, 2001 after Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf visited there Saturday. 
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Activists belonging to the Shiv Sena burn a Pakistani national flag in Mumbai, Sunday July 15, 2001. The activists were protesting against cross-border shelling by Pakistani troops at the Indo-Pak border in Kashmir even as Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf indulged in peace talks with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in Agra.
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A Hindu priest makes offerings for peace as boys hold up the Indian and Pakistani flags in Calcutta, Saturday, July 14, 2001. A group of young Calcuttans arranged the Hindu ritual to wish for the success of the historic July 15 India-Pakistan summit to be held in Agra.
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Police and special security officers run last minute checks at the Taj Mahal in Agra, Saturday, July 14, 2001. Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and his wife Begum Musharraf will visit this historical monument Sunday during the India-Pakistan peace summit in Agra between President Musharraf and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to discuss the prolonged Kashmir issue.
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Hindu refugees from Kashmir protest the visit of Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in New Delhi, Saturday, July 14, 2001, the first day of Musharraf's visit to India. Musharraf is in India until July 16 for a historic summit primarily dealing with the five decade long Kashmiri dispute. 
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Shiv Sena activists burn a mock Pakistani flag, Monday, July 16, 2001 in Agra where the historic India-Pakistan summit between Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is taking place. Shiv Sainiks are opposed to any concession to Pakistan.
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Hindu refugees from Kashmir protest the visit of Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in New Delhi, Saturday, July 14, 2001, the first day of Musharraf's visit to India. Musharraf is in India until July 16 for a historic summit primarily dealing with the five decade long Kashmiri dispute.
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