Trip postponed: No birthday at Taj Mahal for Rehman Malik

Interior Minister tweets that visit to India clashes with trip to Turkey, postpones trip by at least three days.

While mainstream media gathered steam behind Interior Minister Rehman Malik's rescheduled trip to India set for later this month comfortably coinciding with his birthday, Malik though sighed that the fantasies being played out in hastily put together graphic mash-ups on television screens, will never come to fruition.

Early on Thursday, Malik tweeted from his official twitter account that he will not be able to make the trip on the proposed dates since he has to attend a conference on the other end of the continent in Turkey.

“Pak High comissioner India was informed in the morning that I will not be able to visit 11th to 13th as I had to be tripod meeting in Turkey.“

The trip is now being pushed forward by a couple of days, he tweeted.

“I will not be able to go to India and now new proposed dates are 14 to 16th Dec. An official hand out will be issued tomorrow in this respect.”

The interior minister though did not forget the gracious offer made by his Indian counterpart and thanked him for the hospitality extended.

“Grateful to Mr Shinde for his kind gesture to invite me to celebrate my birth day in Agra. Having unable to go on 12th now I will go on 14^th.“

Indian Home Minister Kumar Shinde and Malik are expected to discuss how to bring into effect the visa agreement on the trip.