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Pak president Zardari likely to come on
'personal' visit to India
Sunday April 01, 2012 10:10:27 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi/Islamabad: Against the backdrop of improving bilateral ties, Pakistan
President Asif Ali Zardari is expected to come on a personal visit
to India later this month to pay his respects at the revered Sufi
shrine at Ajmer Sharif.
Zardari has conveyed to the Indian government his desire to visit
the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, said official
sources in New Delhi. The visit is expected to take place around
April 8, official sources said.
The request was received by the Indian external affairs ministry a
couple of days ago and the government is considering it, the
sources said.
In Islamabad, presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar Sunday that
said Zardari's trip was initially planned to be a private visit,
but did not rule out the possibility that it could turn into an
official one.
There is a possibility that the trip could also provide an
opportunity for talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and
Zardari, said sources in New Delhi.
The two leaders last met on the sidelines of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Yekaterinburg in Russia
in 2009.
If Zardari comes to India, he will become the first Pakistani
president to visit India after Pervez Musharraf last came here in
2005. Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani came to Mohali
to watch the World Cup semi-final match in Mohali, Punjab in March
last year.
Manmohan Singh and Gilani met on the sidelines of the Nuclear
Security Summit in Seoul last week and welcomed an upturn in
bilateral ties.
India and Pakistan resumed their peace process, which stalled
after 26/11 terror attacks, in February last year. Meeting in the
Maldives on the sidelines of the SAARC summit in November,
Manmohan Singh and Gilani promised to open a new chapter in the
history of the troubled India-Pakistan relationship.
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