Insiders say the two talked about Sharif's insistence that further meetings build on what he had already achieved with Vajpayee's predecessor as prime minister, Inder Kumar Gujral.

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Inder Kumar Gujral, is an urbane, upright and self-assured politician.

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But his arrogance has now plunged India into yet another political crisis that threatens to unravel the country's fragile, three-month-old coalition government headed by Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral.

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