Former RAW Chief Amarjit Singh Dulat showered praise on Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir for his meeting with US President Donald Trump. Dulat called for Munir to come to India and meet PM Modi to thaw ties.
Dulat made the remarks during interview
The former chief of India’s premier intelligence agency- the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)- made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Geo News at King’s College, during a discussion on his newly published book The Chief Minister and the Spy.
Dulat recalled how Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Pakistan to attend the wedding of Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif’s granddaughter, and said that Pakistan must also try their hand at thawing the frozen ties, reported The News International quoting the interview with Geo.
‘I congratulate Field Marshal Asim Munir’
Dulat said: “I congratulate Field Marshal Asim Munir. Congratulations to the people of Pakistan. He should now come and meet Modi Ji in Hyderabad House and then may visit Amritsar. I believe that hardlines can be softened. In 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Pakistan to attend the wedding of Nawaz Sharif’s granddaughter. Things can and should improve. Someone needs to bowl first. Imran Khan is in jail. The Field Marshal or Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif can do that.”
Dulat agreed that relations are frozen between India and Pakistan, especially after the recent conflict but he was hopeful of a change, saying that if the meeting between Pakistan Field Marshal Asim Munir and US President Donald Trump can take place, so even he could visit Delhi, as reported by Geo News.
‘If it can happen in Washington, why not in Delhi’
“Look at the Field Marshal’s lunch in the US. Whoever arranged it, send him to Delhi too. If it can happen in Washington, why not in Delhi,” he told Geo News.
He said that the Field Marshal’s luncheon at the Cabinet Room and the Oval visit, lasting over two hours, was a major development in the US-Pakistan relations.
‘I congratulate Pakistan’
He said, “This has happened for the first time. It’s good and huge for Pakistan. I congratulate Pakistan but don’t stop there, come to India too.” Dulat told Geo News that India has good relations with the US.
He said, “Pakistan has always progressed in these relations, that’s why the Field Marshal is there.”
