ISLAMABAD, May 9: A six-member BJP delegation will visit Pakistan on May 13 to attend a conference of the South Asian Free Media Association (Safma). According to an Indian daily Tribune, BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will lead the delegation of party MPs to Murree to attend the conference.

Former BJP ministers, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Satya Narayan Jatiya, Kiran Maheshwari and MPs, including Uday Singh and A. Khanna, would accompany him for the week-long conference beginning on May 14.

— APP

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