NEW DELHI: United Arab Emirates leader and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan is set to arrive in India on Wednesday along with seven ministers on a visit that is expected to witness signing of a landmark civil nuclear cooperation pact among agreements across sectors, including a deal on security and information sharing to combat terrorists.The nuclear cooperation agreement will be India’s first such pact with any West Asian nation. The UAE has civil nuclear pacts with France and South Korea, both of which have nuclear cooperation agreements with India as well. On his maiden visit to India in official capacity, Zayed Al Nahyan, chief architect of the UAE’s counter-terror partnerships including that with India, also hopes to push bilateral trade and investments “India and the UAE hope to sign 16 pacts during the visit of Abu Dabhi crown prince. These include a pact on civil nuclear cooperation involving power stations and setting up research and development centres,” the UAE’s envoy to India Ahmed AR Albanna told mediapersons, referring to the upcoming visit of the crown prince within six months of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to the Gulf nation.The UAE leader is scheduled to visit the country for three days, but he may extend the trip to attend the first day of the ‘Make in India Week’ in Mumbai on Saturday where business leaders from his country participants. On Friday, a business delegation of about a hundred people is expected to participate in the India-UAE economic symposium in Mumbai.The other 15 pacts will cover security cooperation and information sharing in the light of bilateral counter-terror partnership; industrial cooperation, aerospace, finance , re newable energy, IT , cyber security and investments among other areas.Albanna said that the joint statement that will be released after the Modi-Al Nahyan meeting will deal with details on the counter-terror partnership. “This visit in many ways will reinforce the vision that was put in place by Modi’s visit to the UAE last August and will uplift ties to strategic cooperation and strategic coordination on all regional issues and other major global issues,” he said.The UAE has deported a number of ISI-backed terror operatives and Islamic State (IS) radicalised youth to Delhi. Its leader’s visit comes in the backdrop of the UAE handing over three Indian IS sympathisers to India last month, taking the total number of radicalised youth deported by the country since last year to a dozen. The UAE has also set up two centres with the radical and extremist groups and individuals. The country had come out in India’s support within hours of the Pathankot attack and even suggested that the terror strike should be investigated, in what was seen as an indirect reference to Pakistan. will figure among the