Hina Rabbani due in Dhaka tomorrow

Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow morning as special envoy to invite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Islamabad to attend the Developing-8 Summit on November 22.
Apart from calling on the prime minister, Hina will meet her Bangladeshi counterpart Dipu Moni, during her 12-hour visit, foreign ministry officials said.
She was originally scheduled to arrive on October 25 which was postponed.
Such visit by a top level Pakistani official will be the first of its kind since the incumbent government came to power four years ago.
Bilateral engagement of the two countries in the last four years has been limited to the visits of Bangladesh's education and commerce ministers to Islamabad.
Hina Rabbani's visit would present an opportunity to discuss unresolved issues between the two countries, officials said.
Bangladesh had long been demanding repatriation of stranded Pakistanis, sharing of wealth of the undivided Pakistan and unconditional apology from Pakistan for the genocide during the Liberation War in 1971.
Meanwhile, sources at the foreign ministry said there is very little chance of Sheikh Hasina visiting Pakistan.
Instead, she might send Dipu Moni as her representative, though the prime minister's attendance would be important as she played a significant role in D-8 and led it for two years, from 1999 to 2000.
The D-8 is an organisation of eight Muslim countries-- Bangladesh, Iran, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt, Nigeria and Pakistan.
Dhaka hosted the D-8 Summit in March, 1999.