Pakistan FM offers prayers at Nizamuddin shrine in Delhi

New Delhi, July 28 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar offered prayers at the Nizamuddin shrine in Delhi on Thursday.

She will also visit the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, Rajasthan, before leaving for Lahore.

The two countries resumed formal peace talks in February 2011, after suspension of dialogue following militant attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 by Pakistan-based militants that killed 166 people.

On her arrival in India on Tuesday, Khar had pinned hope that she planned to unburden the relationship from the baggage of history.

India and Pakistan in February resumed a formal peace process, which broke off after the 2008 attack on India's financial capital of Mumbai by Pakistan-based militants, in which 166 people were killed.

During her visit, Khar first met senior Kashmiri separatist leaders, including hardliner Syed Ali Geelani. Her meeting with the separatist leaders indicated the importance attached to the disputed region.

Khar met her Indian counterpart S. M. Krishna on Wednesday to push forward the bilateral peace process.

She also met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders L.K. Advani and Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday. (ANI)