Pakistan Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif to meet PM today

December 12, 2013 09:01

Pakistan Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif arrives in New Delhi Thursday on a trip that will include a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a visit to Delhi Metro's busiest Rajiv Chowk station.

Shahbaz, the younger brother of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is arriving on the invitation of his Punjab counterpart in India, Parkash Singh Badal. He would be meeting Manmohan Singh Thursday morning. He would also meet Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma.

Shahbaz, who launched a Metro Bus Service project in Lahore, would also be visiting the Patel Chowk Metro station.

Keen to ease the power situation in his state, Shahbaz would be visiting the Timarpur-Okhla Solid Waste Management Project in Jasola and the New Delhi Mahatma Gandhi Thermal Power Plant, Jhajjar, village Khanpur Kalan, according to the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi.

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