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The Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan are set to meet on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit, sparking hopes of a resumption of peace talks between the nuclear rivals. PM Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh of India were to meet at the summit venue in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where more than 50 heads of state from the developing world are gathered for a two-day summit that began on Wednesday. Relations between India and Pakistan, who have fought three wars, worsened dramatically after last years bombings in the Indian commercial capital Mumbai which killed 166 people and were blamed by New Delhi on the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba(LeT). Singh has voiced hope that Pakistan will promise action against those behind the attacks when he meets Gilani for the second high-level talks between the two sides since the Mumbai raids. Pakistan on Wednesday expressed some optimism over the direction relations were taking.
