ISLAMABAD, April 29 (Xinhua) -- A Pakistani parliamentary delegation, representing all major political parties, touched down in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Saturday for a two-day visit in a bid to improve ties between the two countries.
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, speaker of the National Assembly or the lower house of the parliament, is leading the 15-member delegation, according to the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul.
Apart from meeting their counterparts in Kabul, the Pakistani lawmakers are also scheduled to meet President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.
After a series of earlier meetings in Islamabad and Kabul between political leaders and lawmakers, Afghan President Ghani has invited Pakistani members of parliament to visit Kabul and break the stalemate in bilateral contact.
Days earlier, senior Pakistani military officials had also travelled to the Afghan capital on the direction of Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, and they had told their Afghan counterparts that "terrorists are common threat and shall be defeated," according to an army spokesman.
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