Delhi to host next round of visa talks
Pakistan-India Joint Working Group on Bilateral Visa Agreement concludes meeting, decides to continue dialogue.
ISLAMABAD:
The Pakistan-India Joint Working Group on Bilateral Visa Agreement concluded its two-day meeting on Friday, and decided to continue the dialogue before the end of August in New Delhi.
The new agreement will be finalised in the next round of Home/Interior Secretaries level talks in Islamabad.
The latest talks, the first of their kind, which commenced on Thursday, were held in a friendly and cordial atmosphere. The two sides discussed the details and modalities of visa facilitation in a bid to ease the travelling process for nationals of the neighbouring counties. The group also discussed amendments in the existing visa agreement.
A three-member Indian delegation arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday to participate in the meeting of the working group formed with an aim to replace hard-line visa policies.
The decision to form a Joint Working Group was taken during the India-Pakistan Interior and Home Secretary level talks, held in New Delhi on March 28-29, 2011.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 4th, 2011.
The Pakistan-India Joint Working Group on Bilateral Visa Agreement concluded its two-day meeting on Friday, and decided to continue the dialogue before the end of August in New Delhi.
The new agreement will be finalised in the next round of Home/Interior Secretaries level talks in Islamabad.
The latest talks, the first of their kind, which commenced on Thursday, were held in a friendly and cordial atmosphere. The two sides discussed the details and modalities of visa facilitation in a bid to ease the travelling process for nationals of the neighbouring counties. The group also discussed amendments in the existing visa agreement.
A three-member Indian delegation arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday to participate in the meeting of the working group formed with an aim to replace hard-line visa policies.
The decision to form a Joint Working Group was taken during the India-Pakistan Interior and Home Secretary level talks, held in New Delhi on March 28-29, 2011.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 4th, 2011.