‘Indira was thinking of freeing PoK’
BJP parliamentary party patriarch L.K. Advani feels that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi may have thought of liberating Pakistan-occupied-Kashm-ir when she “decided to help Sheikh Mujibur-Rahman (Bangladesh first president) carve out an independent Bangladesh for the Bengalis of East Pakistan.”
In his latest post in his blog titled “Did Mrs Gandhi plan to liberate occupied Kashmir”, the senior BJP leader sought deeper research by historians to get an Indian perspective on various aspects of the nearly four-decade-old war.
“A question that had been on my mind since some weeks was when in 1971 Indiraji decided to help Sheikh Mujibur Rahman carve out an independent Bangladesh for Bengalis of East Pakistan, was she also simultaneously thinking of an operation in West Pakistan aimed to achieve two major objectives to balkanize West Pakistan and to liberate Pakistan occupied Kashmir,” Mr L.K. Advani said.
He further said that some objective Indian historian needs to do research into “Indian source material and government of India documents” to give the country a “version of events as seen from our side, rather than on the basis principally of American sources.”
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Krishna to visit Lanka Thursday
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Nov. 21: External affairs minister S.M. Krishna is expected to open two new Indian consulates at Hambantota and Jaffna in Sri Lanka and discuss the rehabilitation of the internally-displaced Tamils in his three-day visit to the island nation starting on November 25.
India has undertaken the work of constructing 50,000 houses for the displaced Tamil population in the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. Last week, an agreement was signed with Hindustan Prefab Limited for undertaking a pilot project of the construction of 1,000 houses.
Each house, measuring 540 square feet, shall be constructed with locally available material.
Mr Krishna is likely to inaugurate the reconstruction of the railway line between Omanthai and Palai and between Medawachchiya and Thalaimannar.
India is funding the railway project, which is being implemented by the Indian Railway Construction Company (IRCON), a public sector undertaking under the Indian ministry of railways.
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