ANNEX 1
Foreign Affairs Committee Visits to India, Pakistan
and Afghanistan
26 November - 1 December 2006
The Committee split into three groups for this
visit:
Group 1 consisted of:
Mr Eric Illsley
Mr John Horam
Mr Paul Keetch
| Group 2 consisted of:
Mike Gapes
Mr Fabian Hamilton
Mr Greg Pope
| Group 3 consisted of:
Rt Hon Sir John Stanley
Mr Ken Purchase
Ms Gisela Stuart
Richard Younger-Ross
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India
New Delhi
Groups 1 and 2
Sunday 26 November
Rt Hon Ian McCartney MP, Minister of State for Trade,
Sir Michael Arthur KCMG, High Commissioner, and British High Commission
staff and contacts
Monday 27 November
Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Minister of External Affairs
Shri P Chidambaram, Minister of Finance
UKvisas
Shri M K Narayanan, National Security Adviser
India-UK Parliamentary Friendship Group
Shri A K Antony, Defence Minister
Delegation of the European Commission and Finnish
Embassy (Presidency)
Defence Consultative Group
Tuesday 28 November
Briefing with Jammu and Kashmir experts; Yusuf Tarigami,
Communist Party of India-Marxist, Omar Abdullah, President, National
Conference, Muzaffar Hussain Baig, People's Democratic Party and
Ved Bhasin, Kashmir Times.
Group 1
National Commission for Minorities
Institute of Objective Studies
Maja Daruwala, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
(CHRI)
Director of Management, Accounts Department, Consular
Department, Press and Communications Department and the Economy
and Trade, Science and Innovation, and Energy and Sustainable
Development teams, British High Commission
Susanna Morehead, Head of DfID India
Chennai
Group 1
Wednesday 29 November
Mr Mike Connor, Deputy High Commissioner and team
UKvisas
Visa Facilitation Service (VFS)
Apollo Hospitals
Political analysts and commentators
UKTI team
N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu and senior editors
Mumbai
Group 1
Thursday 30 November
Oasis Project, Bandra slum
Mrs Vicki Treadell, Deputy High Commissioner and
heads of section
British Council
Tata Consultancy Services
Friday 1 December
HSBC
Amritsar
Group 2
Tuesday 28 November
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC)
SS Srivastava, Commissioner for Police in Amritsar
Pakistan
Group 3
Sunday 26 November
Sir Mark Lyall Grant, High Commissioner, Colonel
George McCarr, Senior British Defence and ISAF Liaison Officer,
Peter Wilson, Political Counsellor, and Matthew Forman, Second
Secretary.
Groups 2 and 3
Wednesday 27 November
Brigadier Cheema, National Crisis Management Cell
(NCMC)
Brigadier Martin Vine, Defence Adviser, Helen Feather,
Consul, Yusaf Samiullah, Head, DfID, and Sue Beaumont, Director,
British Council
Thursday 30 November
UKvisas
Consular section, British High Commission
General Musharraf, President, Pakistan
Major General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, Director-General,
Military Operations
Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Mushahid
Hussain
Sumaira Malik, Minister for Women's and Youth Affairs
Afghanistan
Group 3
Monday 27 November
Stephen Evans CMG, Ambassador, Michael Ryder, Deputy
Head of Mission, John Gordon, Deputy Head of DfID, Afghanistan,
Graham Zebedee, Deputy Head, Drugs Team, British Embassy, Mark
Bishop, Serious Organised Crime Agency, and Graham Howard, Strategic
Delivery Unit.
International Relations Committee
Women parliamentarians
President Karzai
David Chessman, Drugs Team, Chris Alexander, Deputy,
UN Secretary-General's Special Representative, Charles Briefel,
Senior Rule of Law Officer, United Nations Assistance Mission
in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Dr Hansjörg Kretschmer, Head of European
Commission delegation and Gary Peter, US Embassy.
Tuesday 28 November
Mr Michael Semple, Council of the European Union,
Deputy Special Representative in Afghanistan
General David Richards CBE DSO, Commander, ISAF,
Kabul
Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission: Commissioner
Fahim Hakim, Commissioner Nader Nadery and Commissioner Zia Langari
Graham Zebedee, Deputy Head, Drugs Team, John Gordon,
Deputy Head of DfID, Doug Wankel, Counter Narcotics Co-ordinator,
US Embassy and Hakan Demirbuken, United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime
Wednesday 29 November
General Khodaidad, Deputy Counter-Narcotics Minister
Minister Haneef Atmar, Education Minister
Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta
Major General Bucknall, ISAF Command
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