Washington: Relations between India and Pakistan and Islamabad's keenness to buy military hardware from the US are likely to come up for talks between Presidents George W Bush and Pervez Musharraf at Camp David on June 24.

Bush is expected to be generous towards Musharraf's request for more economic aid from the US and the international monetary institutions where the US wields considerable influence.

It is also expected that the US will ask Pakistan to contribute troops to stabilize Iraq even though Pakistan has never been popular in Iraq among the Shiite majority in Iraq because of the treatment of Shiites in Pakistan and among the Sunnis because the Sunnis of Iraq were for a secular state under Saddam Hussein and remain so now.

Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan said in Islamabad that Indo-Pak relations is likely to figure in Bush-Musharraf meeting.

He said the US has played a "constructive role behind the scenes" to bring India and Pakistan near to talks. Bush and Musharraf would be looking at ways to reduce tension between India and Pakistan and begin a result-oriented dialogue between the two neighbours, Khan added.

Musharraf would also seek to buy armament but did not specify the weapons.

The US had slapped sanctions on Pakistan in 1990 because of its nuclear programme but they were partially lifted in 2001 when Islamabad joined hands with America in the hunt for al-Qaida and Taleban in Afghanistan.

PTI