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September 24th, 2005, 04:40 PM
Islamabad: Pakistan has conveyed its concern to India over the proposed structural changes for Jinnah House in Mumbai, which the Indian Government plans to convert into a SAARC cultural centre.
Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan informed Pakistan's cabinet yesterday that India had been told of Islamabad's concern over the structural changes proposed by the Indian government for Jinnah House.
The issue of Pakistan's preference to acquire Jinnah House for its consulate has repeatedly been raised by President Pervez Musharraf and Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri with the Indian leadership in the last two years, but successive Indian governments have refused to hand over the house to Pakistan, Khan was quoted as saying by 'Daily Times' newspaper.
During the last meeting between Kasuri and External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh, Pakistan was asked to settle for an alternate site in Mumbai for its consulate, he said.
According to Indian officials, Pakistan has formally agreed to construct its Consulate building in a property offered by the Maharastra government and plans are afoot to reopen it in a rented accommodation by year-end.
Both India and Pakistan plan to open their consulates in Karachi and Mumbai by end of this year.
Jinnah built the Victorian house in Mumbai in 1936 on his return from England. He had left the house to his sister Fatima Jinnah, who remained its legal owner until 1985, when the Maharashtra government claimed it as an evacuee property.
http://web.mid-day.com/news/world/2005/september/119531.htm
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I dont understand why the fock has pakistan to say anything about what we do to Jinnah house. It is in our country, we may burn it down if we want, cant they fukin mind their own business. Agreed that it was Jinnah home but after the partition he made pakiland his hole. He vouched to fuk off from India then why raise the issue of what we do to that house. Burn it to the ground.
Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan informed Pakistan's cabinet yesterday that India had been told of Islamabad's concern over the structural changes proposed by the Indian government for Jinnah House.
The issue of Pakistan's preference to acquire Jinnah House for its consulate has repeatedly been raised by President Pervez Musharraf and Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri with the Indian leadership in the last two years, but successive Indian governments have refused to hand over the house to Pakistan, Khan was quoted as saying by 'Daily Times' newspaper.
During the last meeting between Kasuri and External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh, Pakistan was asked to settle for an alternate site in Mumbai for its consulate, he said.
According to Indian officials, Pakistan has formally agreed to construct its Consulate building in a property offered by the Maharastra government and plans are afoot to reopen it in a rented accommodation by year-end.
Both India and Pakistan plan to open their consulates in Karachi and Mumbai by end of this year.
Jinnah built the Victorian house in Mumbai in 1936 on his return from England. He had left the house to his sister Fatima Jinnah, who remained its legal owner until 1985, when the Maharashtra government claimed it as an evacuee property.
http://web.mid-day.com/news/world/2005/september/119531.htm
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I dont understand why the fock has pakistan to say anything about what we do to Jinnah house. It is in our country, we may burn it down if we want, cant they fukin mind their own business. Agreed that it was Jinnah home but after the partition he made pakiland his hole. He vouched to fuk off from India then why raise the issue of what we do to that house. Burn it to the ground.