Pak trip for Indian MPs starts today

Firebrand MP Renuka Choudhary will be India’s answer to the vivacious Sherry Rehman when the 14-member Indian Parliamentary delegation ...

Firebrand MP Renuka Choudhary will be India’s answer to the vivacious Sherry Rehman when the 14-member Indian Parliamentary delegation begins its eight-day trip to Pakistan tomorrow. The delegation is led by Rajya Sabha MP Kuldip Nayar, a veteran of many peace initiatives. The MPs will spend eight days touring Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi and have received confirmation that PM Mir Jafarullah Jamali will meet them.

The delegation’s composition and itinerary can be another indication of the recent easing of tensions. Besides the PM, Indian MPs are being hosted by CMs of Punjab and Sind and have been invited for a formal luncheon at the National Assembly.

An interaction with Pakistani politicians, a public meeting and a press conference has also been scheduled for the Indian MPs.

Ritu Sarin

Ritu Sarin is Executive Editor (News and Investigations) at The Indian Express group. Her areas of specialisation include internal security, money laundering and corruption. Sarin is one of India’s most renowned reporters and has a career in journalism of over four decades. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since 1999 and since early 2023, a member of its Board of Directors. She has also been a founder member of the ICIJ Network Committee (INC). She has, to begin with, alone, and later led teams which have worked on ICIJ’s Offshore Leaks, Swiss Leaks, the Pulitzer Prize winning Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Implant Files, Fincen Files, Pandora Papers, the Uber Files and Deforestation Inc. She has conducted investigative journalism workshops and addressed investigative journalism conferences with a specialisation on collaborative journalism in several countries. ... Read More

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