The Planning Commission of India called off a visit of its officials to Pakistan last Friday in the wake of the growing tension between the two countries.

The high-level team was all set to visit Pakistan to prepare the ground and finalise dates for plan panel deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia's trip to take the bilateral planning process forward.

The team, headed by secretary, planning, Subhas Pani was scheduled to visit Pakistan last Friday but was asked by the external affairs ministry to call it off at the last minute following the attack on Mumbai.

"The trip was called off at the insistence of the external affairs ministry following the terror attacks in Mumbai," an official said.

Ahluwalia was invited by his Pakistani counterpart Salman Faruqui in June as well as by Pakistani federal minister Farzana Rana during theier visit to New Delhi last month.