President Zardari to visit India on April 8
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will visit India on April 8 for a private visit and to have lunch with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Islamabad announced on Monday.
It will be the first visit by a Pakistani head of state to India since 2005 and comes as the nuclear-armed rivals make gradual progress towards normalising relations, dealt a major blow by the 2008 Mumbai attacks blamed on Pakistanis.
Zardari will visit the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Gharib Nawaz in Ajmer Sharif on a “private visit for prayers,†presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said in a statement.
He added: “The president has also accepted the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for lunch in New Delhi en route to Ajmer Sharifâ€. He will return to Islamabad the same day.
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