At Agra, from July 14 to 16, 2001, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee met Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf. External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh worked out a joint draft with Pakistan’s foreign minister, Abdul Sattar. Vajpayee called in senior cabinet colleagues to read it. They found that it did not say enough about terrorism, and the summit ended without a joint declaration.
In his memoir of 2008, L.K. Advani, then home minister, wrote: “I noticed that there was no reference to cross-border terrorism in the draft.” Musharraf blamed Advani. Ajay Bisaria, a former Indian envoy to Pakistan, writes that the senior ministers shared one view and that the story of Advani stopping the draft alone is a distortion.