New Delhi, March 5
Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf will visit India on Saturday to offer prayers at the Ajmer Sharif shrine for the success of his Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in the upcoming polls. As of now, no meeting is scheduled between the Pakistani Premier and Indian leaders since it is purely a religious trip.

The term of Ashraf’s government ends on March 16.

Ashraf would land in Jaipur on Saturday morning and proceed straight to Ajmer, sources said. He is expected to return to Islamabad the same day.

The visit takes place at a time when relations between the two countries have come under renewed strain in the wake of the beheading and mutilation of bodies of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops on the Line of Control (LoC) in January.