According to the programme, the delegates of Indian Communist leaders will arrive on 24th of February at Lahore airport. The Joint Left Front comprising of the Communist Party, Labour Party, Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party and other progressive parties would jointly warm welcome and received their brotherhood comrades of India at the Lahore airport. The Joint Left Front would also be arranging seminars, farewell and welcome addresses of these renowned communist leaders of India at Lahore, Karachi, Sahiwal and Rawalpindi/Islamabad.
A grand reception, farewell and welcome address is also scheduled at 4 pm evening on the Ist of March at Rawalpindi Press Club and on the same night, a dinner would be hosted at Islamabad in the honour of these communist leaders of India, says the press release.
The visit of communist leaders of India would not only strengthen the ties between the progressive forces of both the countries but at the same time, it would also accelerate the peace process talk between Pakistan and India. It is noteworthy here that the communist parties of India and Pakistan never ever favoured the war between the two countries, as the war between two countries is against the interest of downtrodden and poor masses of both the countries, Engineer Jameel vehemently stressed.
During their stay in Pakistan, Comrade H. K. Surjeet would visit the Montgomery Jail (Sahiwal), Borstel Jail, Lahore and Lahore Fort where he was jailed and kept in a dark cell No. 3 before partition of 1947. He would also visit Bhagbanpura Railway Station where he was arrested.
A media team would be accompanying Comrades Surjeet and Bardhan.
The team would comprise of five to six journalists and two cameramen from the dailies and TV channels run by the CPI (M). The left in India is one of the largest in the world. The Left Front of India as a whole won 68 seats and more than 30 million votes and is now the third largest party in the Indian Parliament.
The visit of communist leaders will create a new basis for Pak-India peace. There is a wealth of information, knowledge, and history that we can learn from them. This occasion will definitely strengthen the left in Pakistan and in the region. It will give new energy to the workers and peasants movement. It will also break the international and regional isolation of the left in Pakistan. It will strengthen the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal, secular and democratic forces in the region and it could prove to be a new starting point for the awakening of a new and truly independent South Asia, the spokesman of CPP, concluded the press statement with these remarks.