India, May 1 -- Iranian foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, who recently offered to mediate between India and Pakistan, is set to travel to New Delhi next week for discussions on trade and economic cooperation, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Araghchi's visit was scheduled long before tensions flared between India and Pakistan over the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22. He is set to co-chair a meeting of the bilateral joint commission with external affairs minister S Jaishankar while in India during May 7-8, the people said on condition of anonymity.

This will be the first meeting of the joint commission, which mainly focuses on trade and economic cooperation, since December 2019, when Jaishankar travelled to Tehra...