 |
||
|
||
|
||
Shiv Sena, an alliance partner in the NDA government, on Tuesday urged Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf to bring alongwith him all Indian Prisoners of War (PoWs) during his coming visit to India as a "goodwill gesture" even as another party leader asked New Delhi not to accord a red carpet welcome to him.
"It would be a goodwill gesture on the part of Gen Musharraf to bring alongwith him all the 54 PoWs rotting in Pakistani jails since 1971," Sena's northern India chief Jai Bhagwan Goyal told PTI.
Goyal also urged Islamabad to ensure that Hindus in Pakistan were treated as equal citizens in the same way as Muslims were treated in India, besides exerting its influence on the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan to lift the dress code imposed on Hindus.
Meanwhile, in another statement, party's city unit leader Abhimanyu Gulati asked the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government not to accord a red carpet welcome to the Pakistan president.
"Mushharaf had not saluted Vajpayee
when the latter went on a bus trip to Lahore in February 1999. Therefore,
he too should not be accorded a red carpet reception," Gulati said.
|
||
|
||
|
||