Pak ANP delegation visiting India

New Delhi, July 11 (UNI) A six-member delegation of Pakistan's Awami National Party (ANP), led by its president Asfandyar Wali Khan, is currently in India on a week-long visit on the invitation of the Congress Party.

The delegation which arrived here yesterday, will call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition L K Advani, sources said.

Mr Asfandyar Wali Khan, who will be here upto July 18, had last visited India in June 2004.

On January 28, following the death of his father, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, an Indian delegation headed by Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson Rehman Khan, carried a message of condolence from the Prime Minister to the family of the late Wali Khan.

The ANP, a supporter of democracy in Pakistan, has expressed readiness to negotiate with the Alliance for Democracy (ARD) on endorsing the Charter of Democracy (CoD) and believes that as long as President Pervez Musharraf is heading the country, there cannot be any democracy in that country.

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