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| Pak Interior Minister Rehman Malik [FILE PHOTO] |
New Delhi: Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik arrives India
following an invitation extended by the Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde,
official source says on Friday.
Visiting Pakistani minister will meet Indian top cabinet
brass to operationalise the launch a revised visa agreement between the two
countries.
Besides the revised visa agreement, the two countries would
also discuss counter-terrorism and cooperation among security and investigation
agencies, said officials.
On India part the Shinde will ask Pakistan to hand over
Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) founder and 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz
Saeed.
Earlier during a recent meeting in Maldives, Home Minister
Sushilkumar Shinde has said that he had told Malik on the sidelines of a SAARC
inter-ministerial conference that Saeed was moving freely in Pakistan and he
should be handed over to India.
The official delegation accompanying Malik includes members
from interior ministry, foreign ministry, and Federal Investigation Agency
(FIA) among others. This is Malik's first official visit to India.
From the Indian side, besides home minister Sushilkumar
Shinde, his junior RPN Singh and senior officials from home ministry, external
affairs ministry and various security agencies would take part in the
deliberations.
Malik, who is visiting India will meet Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon, and Leader of
Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj tomorrow.