Islamabad, Sept 15: Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri plans to visit India next month to hand over an invitation for the SAARC summit to be held here in January this year. Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan told reporters here in reply to a question that Kasuri's visit to India would depend on the response Pakistan receives from India. "We will see what kind of response we receive from India."
Asked whether Pakistan was apprehensive that Kasuri would not be received in India properly, he said Islamabad has no such apprehensions.
Kasuri recently visited Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka to hand over the invitations and planned to go to India, Bhutan and Maldives later next month.
If Kasuri's trip to India materialises, it will be the first ministerial-level contact between the two countries for more than two years, the previous being the Agra summit in June 2001. Bureau Report