Outgoing Pakistan High Commissioner in India Salman Bashir today met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat in Kolkata.

The meeting was officially described as a "courtesy call" before Bashir leaves India.

Accompanied by his wife, Bashir spent about an hour with Mamata in her office and then went to the Press Club to address a press conference.

Veteran Pakistani diplomat Syed Ibne Abbas is scheduled to replace Bashir.