Islamabad, June 22: Pakistan's High Commissioner designate to India Aziz Ahmad Khan would leave for India on June 30 to take over his new posting. Aziz Khan in all probability would be going to New Delhi on June 30, Pakistan's information minister Sheikh Rashid told reporters here last night. Aziz Khan himself was not available to confirm the date.


His counterpart, Shivhankar Menon was expected to takeover his posting here in the second week of July. Menon, who will shortly relinquish his present post as India's ambassador to China is currently tied up with prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to Beijing.

He was expected to wind up his stay in Beijing towards the end of the month and begin preparations to reach here by second week, Indian diplomats here said.

Earlier, Aziz Khan had hinted that he planned to go by the first bus to India if the two countries managed to restore the bus service by that time. Already Pakistan government has said that Pakistan Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali may inaugurate the first bus from Lahore to New Delhi.
Bureau Report