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Modi government's Pakistan policy lacks clarity: Shourie
Modi
government's Pakistan policy lacks clarity: Shourie
New Delhi, May 1 Former union minister Arun Shourie on Friday
said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policy on Pakistan lacked clarity and he is
under the illusion of an out-of-box solution to the vexed issue.
In an interview with Karan Thapar for Headlines Today, Shourie, who was a
minister in the first National Democratic Alliance government led by Atal
Bihari Vajpayee, said: "Like all previous prime ministers Modi was prone
to the belief he could change the relationship. The PM must free himself of the
illusion of out of box thinking."
However, Shourie praised Modi's overall achievement in foreign policy, saying:
"It is the Modi government's great success and there is a theme which runs
through the improved relationship with America, Japan, Australia, France and
Canada as well as neighbourhood countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
which is the recognition of China as India's principal challenge.
"Modi must guard against lack of follow up. That has been the traditional
besetting fault of Indian foreign policy and it must not happen again,"
cautioned Shourie, according to Headlines Today.