The Shiv Sena on Monday called Pakistan a ‘cursed’ land that destroys anybody who dares to go and prostrate there.
The party’s newspaper Saamana (launched by Bal Thackeray in 1988), wrote Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s brief stop-over in Pakistan was “an adventure” and many even termed it “a political masterstroke”.
“In the past, all those (Indian) leaders who pursued Pakistan, did not enjoy a long political career – that is the superstition,” the Sena warned.
Modi made a surprise visit to Pakistan to meet his counterpart Nawaz Sharif on 25 December and warmly greeted him on his birthday.
Citing examples, it said, earlier senior BJP leader LK Advani had gone to the tomb of Pakistan’s founder MA Jinnah, sang his praises, but later his political graph plummeted and today he is nowhere.
Even the former prime minister AB Vajpayee made efforts to improve relations with the neighbour, including launching the Lahore-Delhi bus service, and being part of then former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf’s visit to Agra. And also he had travelled on the inaugural service on February 19, 1999.
Even after all this, the NDA government failed to return to power in 2004. Such is the ‘cursed’ land of Pakistan. Whoever goes to kiss that country’s ground, they have to pay for it. After all, it is soaked in the blood of millions of innocents.
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“Modi’s Pak trip has been praised even by Advani and everybody desires a thaw in the cold relations between the two countries. We only pray that Modi should not suffer the same betrayal as Vajpayee in his endeavours,” the edit concluded.
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