She will today address the inaugural session of the three-day regional summit and later hold bilateral talks with the other Saarc heads of state and government.

Foreign ministry sources confirmed that she would have one-one dialogues with Pervez Musharraf, president of the host country, as well as Indian Premier Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Nepalese PM Bir Bahadur Thapa.

Sources said the agenda of the bilateral talks were being finalised by the foreign ministry officials who had left earlier for Islamabad. The broad agenda, however, would include mutual cooperation with the nations concerned and regional and international issues.

The Bangladesh team at the summit consists of Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan, Foreign Secretary Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, Home Secretary Omar Faruk, PM's Principle Secretary Kamal Uddin Siddiqui, PM's Political Secretary Haris Chowdhury and her Press Secretary Tajul Islam.

The issues that Bangladesh will particularly focus on in its deliberations at the summit include trade, investment, information and communication technology, environment and cooperation in harnessing common natural resources.

The dominating issue of this summit -- adopting a South Asia Free Trade Agreement (Safta) framework -- has already received support from the seven member countries, namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Khaleda is scheduled to return to Dhaka on January 6 on conclusion of the summit.