India will press for handing over of LeT founder and 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafeez Saeed during the visit of Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik beginning December 14th. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi yesterday, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said, when they met in the Maldives on the sidelines of a SAARC inter-ministerial conference in September this year, he told Mr. Malik that Saeed was moving freely in Pakistan and he should be handed over to India. Shinde said he will also seek voice samples of the handlers of the terrorists who carried out the Mumbai terror attack in 2008 that left 166 persons dead.

Both India and Pakistan will operationalise the liberalised visa agreement during Malik's visit. The new visa regime will replace a 38-year-old restrictive accord and will pave the way for time-bound visa approval and greater people-to-people contact and trade.