ISLAMABAD, Jan 19: A meeting of the Pakistan-India Joint Commission aimed at promoting bilateral cooperation in diverse fields will be held in New Delhi in the third week of February, diplomatic sources told Dawn on Friday.

The one-day session of the commission, headed by the foreign ministers of the two countries, will be preceded by meetings of two technical level groups on information and education, the only two working groups that have not met so far.

Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri would be leading a high-level delegation comprising senior foreign ministry officials to New Delhi for the meeting next month.

Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee during his recent visit here had extended an invitation for the meeting to Mr Kasuri who accepted it.—Q.A