LAHORE, April 3: A delegation of lawyers is scheduled to leave for India on Sunday. Headed by Arif Chaudhry, a former vice-chairperson of the Punjab Bar Council, the delegation is visiting the Indian Punjab on an invitation by the Punjab-Haryana Bar Council and association. It will stay in India for about 10 days.

Mostly comprising members of the Punjab Bar Council, the delegation is scheduled to visit Amritsar, Ludhiana and Chandigarh where bar associations are set to host receptions for its members who will also attend a seminar on Pakistan-India relations sponsored by the recently-formed Indo-Pak Friendship Society which is headed by Dr Anmol Rattan Sidhu, president of the Punjab-Haryana High Court Bar Association.

According to Mr Chaudhry, the Punjab Beopar Mandal (chamber of commerce) has also invited Pakistani jurists to a similar seminar where promotion of trade between the two countries will also come under discussion besides other matters.

Former PBC vice-chairman Chaudhry Mohammad Ramzan, former Lahore High Court judge Zahid Husain Bokhari, Punjab Bar Council members Mushtaq Mehdi Akhtar, Malik Mohammad Akram, Pir Masood Chishti, Sheikh Jamshed Hayat and Malik Nausher Khan Langrial are some other prominent members of the delegation.