ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: A group of about 20 journalists from Jammu and Kashmir will visit Azad Jammu and Kashmir, for nearly a week, from Nov 23, as part of Pakistan government's policy to promote contacts , Indian daily Greater Kashmir reported.

The Kashmiri journalists will form part of an Indian delegation that has been invited by the South Asia Free Media Association to attend a seminar on press freedom, in Lahore from Nov 20 to 21.

It is for the first time that a journalist delegation from the occupied Kashmir has been allowed by the Indian government to visit Pakistan, and by Pakistan to visit Azad Kashmir, the report quoted an organizer of the conference as saying.

After the seminar, other journalists from India will return home, while Kashmiri journalists will visit Mirpur. They will meet the Kashmir Committee headed by veteran politician Hamid Nasir Chatha in Islamabad and later visit Muzaffarabad and Gilgit.-APP