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| Jaswant welcomes PM’s idea of Kashmir dialogue | | | Abid Shah
New Delhi,November 3
Former Union Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, has welcomed Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s offer of talks with all shades of political opinion, including the separatists led by All-Party Hurriyat Conference, to bring peace and stability to Jammu and Kashmir.
Talking to Early Times here today about Prime Minister’s peace initiative taken during his last week’s visit to the Kashmir Valley, Mr Jaswant Singh observed “reality of the situation should be in harmony with the efforts made.”
Asked whether Prime Minister was moving in the right direction, Mr Jaswant Singh, who held External Affairs and Finance portfolios in the National Democratic Alliance Government led by Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, remarked that the idea of talks should be welcomed to resolve vexed issues like Kashmir.
Mr Jaswant Singh who recently fell out with the BJP in the wake of the publication of his book Jinnah India-Partition-Independence did not disclose his next political move but said “I would be writing another book soon. This would be on the late C Rajagopalachari, the last Governor General of India and founder of Swatantra Party.”Asked why Kashmir found hardly any reference in his book on Jinnah other than about the letter the founder of Pakistan wrote in 1944 while vacationing in a houseboat in Kashmir to Gandhiji in reply to latter’s missive in Gujarati requesting for a meeting, Mr Jaswant Singh said that he could have written more about J&K and other States but the book became so thick that there was hardly any space to write about matters relating to States.
He said that his book on Jinnah would soon be published in Pakistan, adding that he has already signed an agreement in this regard with Oxford University Press, Pakistan. He said that he would visit Pakistan at the time of the book’s publication.
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