NEW DELHI – Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan today waded into the rowover Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu attending his oath ceremony,thanking him and describing him as an “ambassador or peace”.
“Those in India who targeted him are doing a great disservice to peace inthe subcontinent – without peace our people cannot progress,” Imran Khansaid in a tweet.
The tweet surfaced shortly after cricketer-turned-minister defended hisvisit to Pakistan and a hug shared with the Pakistani army chief.
Mr Sidhu, addressing days of criticism from rivals as well as his own partyleaders, asserted that his visit was “not about politics”, that he had goneon the invitation of an old friend.
He referred to peace gestures by former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayeeand Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who made an unscheduled trip to Lahore in2015 on the prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s birthday.