India and Pakistan have begun implementing a new liberal visa regime following the operationalisation of a bilateral visa agreement last week, officials said on Monday. The Indian High Commission in Islamabad and the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi have started implementing provisions of the new pact related to visitor visa, business visa and pilgrim visa.
The Indian delegation consists of the director of Intelligence Bureau, director-general of the National Investigation Agency and other concerned officials. The broad agenda of the talks would focus on terrorism, fugitives from Indian law, narcotics and humanitarian issues such as of Indian fishermen and civilians in Pakistan jails
The draft of the agreement to ease travel for the nationals of either country desiring to visit the other was finalised during the second meeting of the Joint Working Group (JWG) and will be submitted to the respective governments for obtaining necessary approvals in order to sign the Agreement at an early date, Ministry of External Affairs said.
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