Pakistan PM lands in Jaipur amid public outcry

March 09, 2013 12:16

According to reports, the air force plane carrying Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Prevez Ashraf has landed in Jaipur. Ashraf's delegation includes his family members and some officials.

External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will host lunch for the premier in Jaipur. After visiting the sufi shrine in Ajmer, Ashraf is scheduled to return to Islamabad in the evening. No official meeting is scheduled during his visit.

This is likely to be Ashraf's last foreign visit before the term of his government ends on March 16.

Meanwhile, Syed Zainul Abedin Ali Khan, the chief of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chisti Dargah in Ajmer, has announced the boycott of Pakistani PM as a protest against the beheading of Indian soldiers at the Line of Control.

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