Pakistan’s President, Asif Ali Zardari, will visit India and meet with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on April 8. The visit will be the first by a head of state from Pakistan since 2005. While the one-day trip is largely stated as a “private visit for prayers” at Sufi saint Hazrat Khawaja Ghareeb Nawaz’s shrine in Ajmer, the visit assumes significance as it comes in the backdrop of various developments: only a few days earlier, India offered Pakistan 5,000MW of electricity to meet its urgent energy needs; a notice has been released by the U.S. Rewards for Justice Programme for an award of up to $10 million for “information leading to arrest and conviction of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed.”
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