Malik Seeks Rescheduling of India Visit

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has sought a change in the dates of his upcoming visit to India owing to a previously scheduled meeting in Turkey. The new dates proposed by Pakistan are December 14 to 16, reported The Hindu. Earlier he was scheduled to visit India from December 11 to December 13 with a visit to Taj Mahal packed in to allow him to celebrate his birthday there on December 12. After Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde told the media that India would facilitate the Taj Mahal visit as Mr Malik had expressed a desire to spend his birthday there, the Minister was at the receiving end of jibes galore in Pakistan.

The Minister sought to clear the air on his India visit via Twitter in the wee hours of Thursday. Thanking Shinde for his “kind...