Amid Indo-Pak cricket battle, commencing this month a delegation of Indian business giants will visit Pakistan, paving the way for beefing up the sluggish trade ties on sound trajectory between the two countries.
ICICI Bank, India's second largest bank, will fly a 60-member delegation to Pakistan, including Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani of Reliance Industries, Infosys chief NR Narayanamurthy, Aditya Birla group head Kumaraman-galam Birla, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji, Mahindra and Mahindra Managing Director Anand Mahindra, Tata group Chairman Ratan N. Tata, Adi Godrej and HLL chief MS Banga besides, members of the Garware and Kirloskar families and chairmen of leading public sector units like IOC and ONGC, said a news report here.
The invitations are expected to go out within couple of days, and ICICI team is expected to touch down in Pakistan around March 20, in time, to witness the climax of the one-day series, added the report.
"The 60-member team will be flying in a 200-seater chartered aircraft, and will use the opportunity to combine cricket with business," ICICI Bank sources have been quoted as saying.
"The delegation will have meetings with business leaders of Pakistan to explore avenues to grow business links," added the media report maintaining, Pakistan Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation (Picic), a key development institution, will host Indian delegation and organise meetings.
Picic is in a sense, ICICI's counterpart in Pakistan, since both were created with fundamental principle and raison detre of spearheading industrial growth in their respective countries.

Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2004

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