DELHI, India: A leading weekly of New Delhi, Radiance, has called on Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi to 20 to Pakistan to salvage India’s peaceful and peaceable image.
In its issue of November 2 t0 8 the weekly in an editorial advised the Indian Prime Minister not to listen any more to his advisers who advise him periodically not to undertake his Jong overdue journey to Pakistan.
Accusing various political parties in India for not showing accommodation to Pakistan, the weekly takes note of Pakistan’s concern over Indian propaganda. It deplores that “we have not a single political or so-called cultural party which has tried to show accommodation to neighboring Pakistan. We have rather had in our midst, parties striving for revocation of Pakistan.
“The editorial said. “Has not Mr Atal Vajpayee in his hey-day as an activist of the Jana Sangh, drew thunderous applause at his call: “I say: revoke partition? Then it was the much mellowed Vajpayee who said in Islamabad in February 1978s India’s foreign minister: strong Pakistan is in India’s interest’ adding that “our stridently aggressive attitude towards Pakistan has kept it on tenterhooks. This unpleasant fact”, the paper adds should, in all humility, be admitted by us at least now, when she is running swiftly towards nuclear capability as well.
Our un-magnanimous un-Catholic attitude is driving Pakistan towards desperate moves. The run can be checked if not totally stopped, even now”, the paper Urges.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 5, 1986
