Tours of India-President Asif Ali Zardari will visit India’s holy place of a famous Sufi Muslim saint soon, the first trip by a Pakistani head of state to the country’s archenemy since 2005, a spokesman said Sunday. It comes at a time of humanizing relations between the two countries.
“The trip has been on the cards for some time, and at first it was a private visit,” presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar told the connected Press. He held out the option that it could turn into an official visit.
Zardari will India travel to the Ajmer Sharif shrine in Rajasthan district, said Babar.
Zardari will India travel to the Ajmer Sharif shrine in Rajasthan district, said Babar.
The visit will take place “very soon,” but correct dates are life form worked out, he said. The site is not far from the India-Pakistan border. Pakistan and India have fight three wars, two of them over the doubtful territory of Kashmir, since they both gained independence from Britain in 1947.
Connections hit a low point in 2008, when militant killed 166 people in attacks on a hotel and other sites in the Indian city of Mumbai. India answerable the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba for carrying out the rampage and has criticized Pakistan for not responsibility enough to crack down on the assembly.
Pakistan has deprived of that any state institutions played a role in the assault on Mumbai. Relations have slowly better over the last year. Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani met his Indian complement Manmohan Singh last November on the sidelines of a meeting in the Maldives. Pakistan also said last year that it plans to grant India “Most Favored Nation” trading rank.
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