External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh will be on a three-day visit to Pakistan and Afghanistan starting February 15.

Singh will visit Kabul on February 15 before flying the same day to Islamabad for talks with Pakistani leaders.

New Delhi is attaching significance to his trip to Kabul, the first high-level one by an Indian leader after the recent Afghan elections.

Under the National Democratic Alliance regime, Jaswant Singh had visited Kabul as external affairs minister in December 2002 for the installation of the interim government headed by Hamid Karzai.

Yashwant Sinha too visited that country after taking over from Jaswant Singh.

Natwar Singh will call on President Hamid Karzai and discuss bilateral and international issues with other Afghan leaders.

The minister has also convened a meeting of India's consuls general in four Afghan cities to assess the post-election scenario.