Islamabad: Former Indian Prime Minister I.K. Gujral has called on former Pakistan
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Dubai and invited her to deliver a lecture at the
India-Pakistani Friendship Society.
A press release issued here by Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on December 21
said that Gujral met the self-exiled former Prime Minister on December 18 and
invited her to visit New Delhi.
Bhutto made waves in India and Pakistan when she visited last year during which she
advocated normalisation of relations between the two countries on the pattern of
India-China relations, even while attempting to resolve the Kashmir issue.
She also criticised the Pakistan military establishment for permitting the pan-
Islamic militant group's cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
Her comments and meetings with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and other Indian
leaders was strongly criticised by sections of the military officials and
politicians from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
PTI
