India Pakistan Visa Regime

• Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik to arrive in India on Friday, new visa regime to be launched

  A revised visa agreement between India and Pakistan will be launched on Friday when Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik arrives on a three-day visit to India, said official sources In New Delhi on Thursday.

• Liberalised visa agreement signed between India and Pakistan

  India and Pakistan have signed a new visa regime which will facilitate simpler travel for people across the border. The new pact, signed between External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik, replaces the old visa regime that was signed in 1974, and will pave the way for time-bound visa approval and greater peopl...

• India, Pakistan hold 'positive talks' ahead of foreign ministers' meet

  Terrorism figured in great detail during Friday's meeting between the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan who discussed all aspects of the resumed dialogue, ahead of a meeting between their Foreign Ministers on Saturday.

• SM Krishna arrives in Pak for 3-day visit; terror tops India's agenda

  Agreements on a liberalised visa regime and cultural exchanges are expected to be signed during Foreign Minister SM Krishna's three-day visit to Pakistan which began today. Mr Krishna, who has reached Pakistan, will hold talks with his counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar in Islamabad tomorrow. He is expected to meet other Pakistan leaders also.

• Indo-Pak talks: No headway in liberalised visa regime

  A widely-expected liberalised visa agreement between India and Pakistan was postponed at the Home Secretary-level talks in Islamabad today after Pakistan insisted on political participation. The agreement will provide tourist visas on arrival at the Wagah border for senior citizens and young children.

• India, Pakistan Home Secretaries-level talks begin

  The Home and Interior Secretaries of India and Pakistan began crucial two-day talks is Islamabad today, with the discussions expected to focus on a relaxed visa regime and the prosecution of the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks blamed on the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

• Indo-Pak Home Secretary-level talks to start in Islamabad tomorrow

  A 12-member delegation, led by Home Secretary RK Singh, left for Pakistan for the Home Secretary-level talks beginning on Thursday where a relaxed visa regime is expected to be inked apart from India's insistence on action against perpetrators of the 26/11 attack.

• India, Pakistan to ease visa rules for businessmen

  Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's lunch meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his day-long visit last week seems to have provided a major thrust to bilateral ties between the two nations. India and Pakistan will soon sign an agreement for a new liberalised visa regime for businessmen from both countries.