Jaswant Singh pleads for peace between Pakistan and India
Former Indian external affairs minister Jaswant Singh, while urging the people of Pakistan for peace between New Delhi and Islamabad, has maintained that both the countries should forget the past and look forward to the betterment of the poverty-stricken people of the Subcontinent.
He was speaking to an audience here at a local hotel on Friday evening. The senior politician and former central leader of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party is in Pakistan to promote his controversial yet popular book ‘Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence’, which had raised a furore when it was released in August 2009, and soon became the subject of controversy, which led to his expulsion from the BJP due to its positive portrayal of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

Without mincing words, veteran Indian politician maintained that both countries should forget the past to meet the challenges of the future. “If we remain in the narrow alley, then we will not see the sunlight,” he succinctly averred.