Advani embarks on week-long trip to Pakistan
The leader of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, LK Advani, has left the Indian capital Delhi for a week-long visit to Pakistan.
Advani said he considered his visit "to be a part of the happy process of steadily increasing people-to-people contacts between India and Pakistan".
He will meet President Pervez Musharraf, PM Shaukat Aziz and Foreign Minister Khurshid Mohammed Kasuri.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. India and Pakistan embarked on a peace process in January last year.
The opposition leader will travel to Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, the city of his birth.
Ahead of his visit, Advani met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to be briefed on the progress of the dialogue between the two countries.
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