Pak PM to visit India
No official
meeting is
scheduled during the visit of Pakistan
Pervez Ashraf, who is arriving on Saturday in
Jaipur on a
pilgrimage to Ajmer
Ashraf,
along with his family members, will land in
Jaipur and then proceed to Ajmer
the Sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti. He
will not make
any stop-over in Delhi
"Neither
was there any proposal from Pakistan
meeting between Ashraf and Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh) nor
is there any move from India
visit," sources said.
This
is likely to be Ashraf's last foreign visit before
the term of his government ends on March 16.
Preparations for the
day-long visit on March 9 were being
finalised, diplomatic and other sources told PTI in Islamabad
Ashraf's visit is
unlike his President Asif Ali Zardari's
who came on a day-long visit last April and made a three-hour
stopover in New Delhi before flying to Ajmer
Singh had hosted lunch
for the visiting Pakistani
President and two leaders also held comprehensive talks.
"It seems the
Prime Minister wants to offer prayers at
the shrine in Ajmer
Pakistan People�s Party in the upcoming polls," a source
in
the Pakistan
government said in Islamabad
Ashraf's visit comes at
a time when there is a chill in
bilateral ties over the ceasefire violations at the LoC. An
Indian soldier was beheaded by Pakistani troops while the
mutilated body of another was found in January.
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