Indian Foreign Secretary Jaishankar flies to Pakistan

Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar has flown to Islamabad from Dhaka to hold talks with his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhary.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 3 March 2015, 07:57 AM
Updated : 3 March 2015, 07:57 AM

He left Dhaka early on Tuesday morning ending his one-day visit as part of his ‘SAARC Yatra’.

He began his tour on Sunday with Bhutan and would end its first leg in Afghanistan on Wednesday.

“Indian Foreign Secretary Dr S Jaishankar arrives at Islamabad for Foreign Secretary level talks,” the Indian High Commission in Islamabad tweeted.

In Bangladesh, Jaishankar held bilateral talks with his counterpart, and met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and foreign minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali.

He handed over a letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Hasina.

In the letter, Modi has invited Hasina to visit New Delhi.