NEW DELHI – India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj may visit Pakistan next week to attend a meeting on Afghanistan, which will be held on December 9 in Islamabad, NDTV reported. The plans for the visit come days after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in Paris, where they had gone to attend the global climate change summit. The two leaders had shaken hands as Nawaz was seen listening attentively as Modi spoke to him. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is also expected to arrive in Islamabad on the occasion of the fifth ministerial conference of the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process, which is being jointly hosted by Pakistan and Afghanistan. The two-day meeting of the regional initiative is being held on Dec 8-9 in Islamabad and will be attended by foreign ministers and senior representatives from China, India, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and UAE. “A warm welcome awaits Mr Ashraf Ghani in Islamabad at the Heart of Asia Meeting on December 9,” Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said at a trilateral meeting with the Afghan president and his British counterpart David Cameroon on the sidelines of the Summit on Climate Change in Paris.