BJP delegation meets Bilawal

Published March 13, 2016
ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari presents a souvenir to BJP leader Vijay Jolly.—PPI
ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari presents a souvenir to BJP leader Vijay Jolly.—PPI

ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has called for increasing people-to-people contacts between India and Pakistan to improve ties.

The call was made by the PPP leader during a meeting with a three-member delegation of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which met him at the Zardari House here on Saturday.

Vijay Jolly, a member of the BJP’s national executive committee and ex-convener of the party’s foreign cell, led the delegation. Vijay Mehta and Lubna Asif are other members of the delegation.

The BJP delegation is in Islamabad to participate in the two-day workshop on “Human Trafficking” organised by the International Conference of Asian Political Parties which began on Saturday.

Talking to Dawn, PPP spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar said talks between Mr Bilawal and the BJP delegation were held in a very cordial and friendly atmosphere.

Published in Dawn, March 13th, 2016

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