NEW DELHI, Jan 19: FBI Director Robert Mueller will visit India early next week for talks with top Indian security officials, a US official said on Saturday, in another sign of the new intimacy between New Delhi and Washington.

The FBI chief’s proposed visit follows close on the heels of a trip to Washington by senior Indian security officials, led by Home Minister L.K. Advani last week. “He (Mueller) should be here early next week,” Gordon Duguid, spokesman for the US embassy in New Delhi, said. “It is a continuation of the series of high-level visits that simply demonstrate the transformation of relations between the two countries. “The FBI chief and his Indian counterpart should normally exchange such visits,” Duguid added. Pakistan-based Islamic guerrillas.—Reuters