A 150-member Pakistani business delegation will arrive in New Delhi on Tuesday. Also, a Pakistani parliamentary team lead by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan is scheduled to arrive in New Delhi in September as part of the Indo-Pak effort to enhance the people-to-people contact.

This was announced by Rajya Sabha member Kuldip Nayyar in New Delhi on Monday.

A group of Indian MPs, who returned from Pakistan after a weeklong tour, said on Monday that plans are afoot to send and receive delegations of artistes, judges, women, students and journalists in the near future.

The Pakistan Press Club is also contemplating to extend an invitation to the Press Club of India shortly.

"A window of opportunity for peace and friendship between the two countries has opened after many years following Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's peace initiative and we must take advantage of it," Nayyar said.

"It is time to start a new chapter for developing good-neighbourly relations," he added.

He said there was an 'overwhelming desire' amongst common citizens in both the nations that the people-to-people contact and trade relations between the two Asian countries grow.