ISLAMABAD Dec 9: A seven-member Awami National Party delegation left here for Lahore on Tuesday on its way to a week- long visit to India.

The ANP delegation is led by its president Senator Asfandyar Wali Khan.

The delegation will cross the border at Wagah check-point on Wednesday and will reach Amritsar to attend a function at the Golden Temple before driving on to New Delhi in the evening, Zahid Khan party’s secretary information said.

The delegation — comprising Bashir Ahmed Bilour Member NWFP assembly, Zahid Khan, Amir Ghazan Khan director Bacha Khan Trust, Ehsan Wayne party secretary general, Syed Aqil Shah NWFP senior vice president and former secretary general Dr Inayatullah Khan — will participate in an international peace conference being organised by the daily Hindustan Times.

The two day conference is starting on Dec 12 in which PPP’s chairperson Benazir Bhutto and Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s chief Altaf Hussain have also been invited.

Zahid Khan said that the party delegation was going on a goodwill visit and it will try to put across its point of view at the conference and in meetings with officials of the Indian government and political parties.