“If aggressive attitude of India ends after the meeting of the prime ministers of Pakistan and India at Jati Umra, it can be termed positive”, he said in a statement here on Saturday.
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PML-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Husain has said aggressive attitude of India towards Pakistan should end after the recent Nawaz-Modi meeting.
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Citing examples of BJP stalwarts A B Vajpayee and L K Advani, ally Shiv Sena today said that political careers of leaders who got too close to Pakistan have been on the wane as it criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise visit to Lahore.
Narendra Modi has chosen the birthday of Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah to make his maiden visit to Pakistan – speaks of symbolism.
What Modi has shown is that prime ministerial visits need not be linked to announcements or agreements, that a visit to Pakistan by an Indian PM is a big ticket announcement in itself.
Asserting that the country had “no compulsion” to improve ties with Pakistan, Sena leaders reminded Modi that “it was the same country which had beheaded our soldiers and taken their heads as trophies, besides engineering Mumbai attack”. Analysts viewed the visit as a potential turning point in Pakistani-Indian relations.
The Indian prime minister’s visit had a positive impact in Pakistan and the opposition parties in Pakistan welcomed the visit and hoped that it will help in reducing tensions. These included Pakistan’s reach-out to Kashmiri separatists that derailed talks a year ago and the issue of terrorism.
PM Nawaz and Modi firm about trying their best to maintain contact at the highest level, source says. Many past attempts at talks have been derailed either due to terror attacks in India or cross-border firing along the Line of Control, the de facto border.
“He (Modi) has finally concluded that there is no choice but to have dialogue with Pakistan”.
Addressing a round-table interaction on Kashmir in the capital Islamabad, he, however, said that Pakistan would continue to support the Kashmir cause but wants a peaceful solution to the issue. Recently the External Affairs Minister of India Sushma Swaraj had visited Pakistan to attend the 5 Heart of Asia summit in December 2015.
Inp adds: Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that his party welcomes the proceeding on talks between Pakistan and India but the Parliament should be taken into confidence prior to initiating dialogues.
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The prime minister also urged the general public to change the way the physically challenged people are being addressed by them.
