India blocks Jaswant Singh's visit to Pakistan

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So much for worlds largest democracy bs. Credit should be given to Jaswant Singh for putting the record straight on partition…unfortunately the Indians just cant digest the truth.

DAWN.COM | Pakistan | India refuses Jaswant visit NOC

     India refuses Jaswant visit NOC

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Jaswant Singh is not coming to Pakistan because the Indian govt has blocked his visit by refusing to issue NOC.—Photo by Reuters

**ISLAMABAD: Jaswant Singh whose book on Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah has raked up a storm in India, resulting in his expulsion from the Bharatiya Janata Party, is not coming to Pakistan as announced earlier by local promoters of the book.**

Leading book retailers in Karachi and Islamabad had on Tuesday announced that Mr Singh would be travelling to Pakistan on Thursday to promote the book, ‘Jinnah — India, Partition and Independence’.
However, they said on Wednesday that the Indian government had blocked his visit by refusing to issue a no-objection certificate, apparently for fears that a rousing welcome in Pakistan for the right-wing politician would compound the political rage in India over his research work on the partition of the subcontinent.
‘The visit had to be postponed because India declined to issue NOC for Mr Jaswant’s visit,’ Mr Mohammad Yousuf, one of his hosts in Pakistan told Dawn, adding the visit had not been cancelled, but postponed till September 7.
He insisted that all preparations had been made for Mr Singh’s visit. But sources in New Delhi said that Mr Singh had no plans to travel to Pakistan.
Quoting the former external affairs minister’s close aides they dismissed reports about his Pakistan visit as rumours.
They said the announcement by the booksellers could possibly be a publicity stunt to boost the sale of the book in Pakistan.

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Nice try Dawn !! Maybe try to print the truth next time :hehe:

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No question of Jaswant visiting Pakistan, says son

New Delhi: Senior politician Jaswant Singh, who was sacked from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for his bestseller biography on Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, has no intention of visiting Pakistan and has not even applied for a visa.

Setting at rest speculation that Jaswant Singh was going to Pakistan, his son Manvendra Singh said: “He has not even applied for a visa.”

“Where is the question of the Indian government denying him a security clearance to visit Pakistan?” he asked, referring to some media reports that Jaswant Singh had been denied security clearance by the Indian government for a promotional visit to sign copies of the book at a leading bookshop in Islamabad and for a speaking engagement.

“Moreover, there is no Pakistani edition of the book yet. The publishers may be pushing up the sales there. But for the moment he has no plans to go there,” Manvendra Singh, a former MP who represented Barmer in Rajasthan, told IANS.

Jaswant, a former external affairs minister, was expelled by the BJP ended last week with the launch of his book Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence.

The biography of Jinnah by Jaswant Singh placed the onus of Partition on Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel that promptly led to his expulsion from the party. The Gujarat government went a step further and banned the book in the state.

However, Manvendra Singh pointed out that his father did nurse an ambition to go to Pakistan at “some point in the future”.

“Sure, he wants to go there at some point in the future. But the dates have not been fixed.”

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Typical BS from the pseudo democratic Nation of Hindustan.

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Wait so the son is a better source of information than the Indian government? Good to know. Plus you need an NOC before you apply for a visa!