Lahore: Two leading Pakistani organisations
have announced that they will immediately resume the exchange
of delegations with India and proposed the creation of a joint
commission to combat the threat of extremism in the region.
Fakhar Zaman, chairman of both the World Punjabi Congress
and the Pakistan Academy of Letters, has said the exchange of
delegations will resume with two teams soon visiting India.
A delegation of Pakistani writers, intellectuals, artists
and educationists will visit the Patiala University later this
month while another team will travel to Amritsar, Chandigarh,
Patiala and New Delhi in February as part of efforts to resume
people-to-people contacts, he said.
Zaman said delegations of Indian writers and
intellectuals are expected to visit Pakistan in March and
April.
In this regard, he also called for the constitution of a
joint commission to tackle the threat of extremism.
"The World Punjabi Congress has always advocated
resumption of peace process between the two countries," he
said.
PTI
