New Delhi: Congress leader Manish Tewari on Friday dubbed today's meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif as a 'futile exercise', adding that it was just a photo opportunity.

'The fundamental question is that why the meeting is taking place. It is an exercise in futility. It is void ab-initio. It is nothing more than a photo opportunity. These are the same people who said that terror and talks cannot go hand in hand, these are the same people who called off talks after Pakistani High Commissioner met Hurriyat. What has really changed?.... This meeting is an absolutely unprecedented disaster,' Tewari told ANI.