Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf would embark on his first official visit to India on Saturday for a day-long pilgrimage to a shrine.
An Indian foreign ministry spokesman on condition of anonymity said that “Pakistan’s prime minister will be in India on Saturday. This is a private visit and he will be accompanied by his family and other officials. He is not expected to meet any Indian political leaders. This is clearly a religious and spiritual trip” .
Ashraf and his family are expected to pray at the shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Gharib Nawaz in Ajmer Sharif, some 400 kilometres west of New Delhi. A senior Pakistani government official confirmed that Ashraf would make a private visit to India on Saturday.
Ashraf will be the senior most Pakistani to visit India since last April when President Asif Ali Zardari embarked on a similar pilgrimage and had lunch with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Tensions between the neighbors came under fresh strain in January when six soldiers were killed in fire exchanges along the de facto border in Kashmir, a region claimed by both countries. The situation has calmed since a ceasefire was agreed between the two armies at the end of January.
A day should soon come when common man can visit as often as he wants to. then we will not need diplomatic dialogues to build relationship. It will build on its own.
WHY PAKISTANI RULERS ARE AVOIDING FOR MORAH? ARE THEY NOT MUSLIMS OR THEY ARE DOING SO WILLINGLY TO PLEASE THEIR MASTERS? WE CANN`T UNDERSTAND THIS HYPOCRACY.
There is something wrong with our leaders for visiting to India,Why they do not go to Saudi arabia for Umrah?The visits of Shrines are better than performing Umrah,Where Pakistani Muslims are going?
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