To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions the Government has had with the Government of Pakistan on the establishment of a permanent extradition treaty. (109115)

We have been negotiating the text of an extradition treaty with the Government of Pakistan since 2003 in the Joint Judicial Co-operation Working Group (JJCWG). The JJCWG last met in Islamabad in July 2006. Discussions on the treaty are continuing.