Advani arrived in Pakistan on Monday in a week long visit. However, a criminal case is still pending against Advani and 17 others for allegedly conspiring to kill Pakistan's first President Moham-mad Ali Jinnah and other leaders, police said.

The case was lodged at Karachi's Jamshed Quarters police station, on September 10, 1947, a few weeks after partition.

"We still have the first information report of this case in our records," an official at the police station said on condition of anonymity.

The Pakistani government last week said it was not aware of any criminal case against Advani.

"He is our guest and visiting Pakistan on our invitation so we cannot open the case against him at this juncture," a senior official said also on condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile Advani met Pakist-an's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in Islamabad on Tuesday, a foreign ministry statement said.

He told Aziz that his visit was "part of the process of normalization initiated by his party through sincere and sustained dialogues process," the statement said.

It also quoted Advani as saying "there was a broad consensus on the peace process in India" and that "the (Indian) government has full support of his party."