JODHPUR: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar visited a revered shrine in India on Thursday where she reportedly prayed to improve ties between the two countries.

Ms Khar spent 25 minutes at the shrine of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti. “I prayed for peace and harmony between India and Pakistan,” local media quoted her as saying after leaving the shrine in Ajmer in the state of Rajasthan.

“I came to try and strengthen relations between India and Pakistan and there is a need for more efforts to reinforce these ties,” Ms Khar said, a day after she held peace talks in New Delhi.

Ms Khar and her Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna on Wednesday insisted that vexed relations between the countries were back on track that underlined a `new era’ of cooperation.

It was the first meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries for a year, and followed the formal resumption in February of the comprehensive peace dialogue suspended by India after the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Ms Khar also visited the shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya in New Delhi.—Agencies