NEW DELHI, April 28: Pakistan has softened its attitude to an Indian peace group that has been walking from New Delhi towards the Wagah border since March 23 by authorizing visas to its 12 members out of the few hundred who wanted to march to a Sufi shrine in Multan, according to diplomats and the march organizers.

Magsaysay award winner and peace activist Sandeep Pandey said in an email Pakistan’s interior ministry had allowed 12 Indian peace activists to enter the country and ‘complete the remaining part of the India-Pakistan peace march’.

However, the ministry had not given them permission to march to Multan, instead, requested them to travel by escorted vehicles for the shrine of Hazrat Bahauddin Zakriya, he said.

Diplomats said the interior ministry had directed the Pakistan High Commission here to issue the visas only for six days for Lahore and Multan.