The Hindu : Aziz Khan to leave for New Delhi on June 30

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Monday, Jun 23, 2003

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Aziz Khan to leave for New Delhi on June 30

ISLAMABAD JUNE 22. Pakistan's High Commissioner-designate to India, Aziz Ahmad Khan, would leave for New Delhi on June 30 to take over his new assignment. Mr. Khan, in all probability, would be going to New Delhi on June 30, the Information Minister, Sheikh Rashid, told reporters here last night.

Earlier, Mr. Khan had hinted that he planned to go by the first bus to India if the two countries managed to restore the bus service by that time. Already Pakistan has said that the Pakistan Prime Minister, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, may inaugurate the first bus from Lahore to New Delhi.

Mr. Khan's counterpart, Shivshankar Menon was expected to take over his posting here in the second week of July. Mr. Menon, who will shortly relinquish his present post as India's Ambassador to China, is currently tied up with the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's visit to Beijing. He was expected to wind up his stay in Beijing towards the end of the month and reach here by the second week.

Officials said that while the two countries have sorted out most of the issues relating to the restoration of the bus service, the two sides were now focussing their efforts to address related issues such as granting of visas and arranging new buses to run in the Lahore-New Delhi route. — PTI

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