India and Pakistan to meet today

The leaders of India and Pakistan will come face to face later today as their armies continue to build up on their shared border.

President Perez Musharraf and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayeee are taking part in a conference in Nepal.

Diplomatic relations broke down between the nuclear neighbours after Kashmiri militants based in Pakistan launched a suicide gun attack on the Indian Parliament.

The British Prime Minister Tony Blair is in India where he is trying to diffuse tensions between the two nations.