ISLAMABAD Sept 3: Veteran Pakhtoon nationalist leader and chief of National Awami Party Pakistan (NAPP) Ajmal Khattak is expected to visit India within the next fortnight to hold talks with Indian Kashmir Committee on prospects of negotiated settlement of the Kashmir dispute as well as to discuss ways to ease border tension between the two countries.

The visit was proposed by the President’s National Kashmir Committee (PNKC), which met here the other day.

Mr Khattak is also expected to meet with some key officials of the Indian government, sources in the foreign office said. They also said that he is also expected to hold talks with the leadership of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC).