Rajnath to attend SAARC home ministers’ meet

Home minister Rajnath Singh will visit Nepal on 18 and 19 September to attend the SAARC Home Ministers’ conference, during which Singh is likely to have a separate a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan it has been reported.

During the visit, apart from attending the SAARC home/interior ministers’ meet, Singh will have bilateral meetings with his counterparts of other SAARC member countries.

The home minister is also likely to have a separate meeting with Nepal deputy prime minister, who is also country’s Home Minister, Bamdev Gautam, besides others on the sidelines of the SAARC convention, official sources said.

Singh will be accompanied by Union home secretary Anil Goswami and several other senior officers of the Home Ministry.

The three-tier meeting will begin at the joint secretary-level and then move on to secretary and home minister-level meetings.