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I will visit Pakistan, insists prime minister

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Sunday afternoon said that there was no pressure on him to desist from visiting Pakistan.

He asserted that he would go to Pakistan to meet President Pervez Musharraf 'as I have accepted his invitation' though the details were yet to be finalised.

"I will surely meet President Musharraf but the date and venue for the meeting are yet to be decided," Vajpayee told newspersons in Bhubaneswar after making an aerial survey of flood-affected districts in Orissa.

"There is no pressure not to go to Pakistan. I don't succumb to any pressure," Vajpayee said when asked whether the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) had put pressure on him to desist from visiting Pakistan.

He said that there is no pressure from National Democratic Alliance (NDA) either not to go to Pakistan.

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