He praised Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif for attending Modi’s swearing-in ceremony in India: “If you look back at the first face-to-face between our PMs, your PM took a brave, farsighted decision. What we said and did made things uncomfortable for Pakistan after the visit."
Senior Congress leader and former foreign minister Salman Khurshid set the cat among the pigeons when he praised Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif while criticising the Modi government. He said in Islamabad at an event: “India has not responded to Pakistan’s overtures for peace in South Asia the way it should have.”
He praised Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif for attending Modi’s swearing-in ceremony in India: “If you look back at the first face-to-face between our PMs, your PM took a brave, farsighted decision. What we said and did made things uncomfortable for Pakistan after the visit."
He claimed that the BJP-government had failed to adequately reciprocate Islamabad’s peace overtures. Meanwhile former Pakistani Ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman, wondered whether New Delhi had a clear policy on Pakistan, and that all political parties in Pakistan wanted peace in India. She said: “Track-2 exchanges between India and Pakistan were critical because of the cognitive disconnect between the two sides. Simultaneously, a new generation of youngsters in both countries was busy constructing new identities and ideas of themselves and their neighbour.”
Sambit Patra slams Congress
Responding to the former foreign minister and key Congress leader Salman Khurshid's slamming BJP for ignoring Pakistan's peace overtures in Islamabad on Thursday, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday said that the Congress dispensation should explain if this is Khurshid's statement or the party's view.
'Salman Khurshid should remind of the fact that government of India does not represent any party and domestic politics should not be carried to foreign nation because it demeans the people of India and ethos of India. The congress dispensation should explain if this is Salman Khurshid's statement or this is what the congress means,' said BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra to ANI.
Patra added that Sonia Gandhi should explain and apologize.
'He not only praises the Pakistani Prime Minister and Pakistani government that it is trying its best to fight terrorism, to spread peace in the south east Asia, but the Indian Government is not reacting to these offers by the Pakistani Government. And his statement that PM Modi is yet to become a statesman, by Salman Khurshid is absolutely appalling,' he added. Patra further added that his statement only means to abuse the ethos of peace loving India.
With inputs from ANI
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