Pakistani authorities will brief against India when Prince William and his wife Kate arrive in Pakistan on Monday for a high-risk five day visit to the country, which the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are undertaking at the request of the foreign office.

“Pakistan security sources told The Telegraph they hoped the visit would enable Pakistan to highlight its condemnation of India’s decision last month to end self-rule in Indian-administered Kashmir,” said a report in The Sunday Telegraph in London.

“The country has tried to marshal international opinion against the Indian move,” the report added.

“More than 1,000 police will secure the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Pakistan as the couple begin a visit the country hopes will dispel its image as a terrorist haven blighted by violence,” it said.

“The visit will be held under unprecedented security for a trip by the couple, as they travel across the country in what Kensington Palace described as their most complex visit ever undertaken. Pakistani officials said the itinerary of their stay was being tightly guarded by the military, with local media only being told details at the last minute.”

The foreign office is going against its own advice, which warns British visitors of the dangers of travel to Pakistan: “There’s a high threat of terrorism and sectarian violence throughout the country. Foreigners, in particular westerners, may be directly targeted.Those engaged in humanitarian aid work, journalism or business sectors are viewed as legitimate targets.The long-standing policy of the British government is not to make substantive concessions to hostage takers. The British government considers that paying ransoms and releasing prisoners increases the risk of further hostage taking.”

A large British press party is accompanying William and Kate. It is expected that Kate will wear salwar kameez during the trip – just as her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana, did during her visits to Pakistan in 1991, 1996 and 1997. She was at the time pursuing an ill-fated romance with the Pakistani heart surgeon, Hasnat Khan, with Imran Khan and his then wife, Jemima, urged to act as go between.

For William, this will be a sentimental visit, retracing his mother’s footsteps. Imran, now Pakistan’s Prime Minister, is expected to use the opportunity not only to tell William about his beloved mother but also to slip in his not entirely flattering views on Narendra Modi and his Kashmir policy.

In May 1997, Diana visited Imran’s Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital In Lahore but also made secret trip to meet Hasnat’s family, where she was told in no uncertain terms by his mother that her son was not for a gora, princess or not.

“She came to visit me twice in Pakistan to help fund-raise for Imran’s hospital, but both times she also went to meet his family secretly to discuss the possibility of marriage to Hasnat,” Jemima later told Vanity Fair.