{"id":56894,"date":"2018-03-18T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=56894"},"modified":"2018-03-18T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T07:09:00","slug":"modis-pakistan-policy-is-a-disaster-manmohan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=56894","title":{"rendered":"Modi\u2019s Pakistan policy is a &#8220;disaster&#8221;: Manmohan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW DELHI, March 18 (TNS):\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0The Narendra Modi government&#8217;s foreign policy on Pakistan and China is a &#8220;disaster&#8221; and a review is overdue, the Congress said in its plenary session here on Sunday, Indian media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh underscored the need for a dialogue and the party&#8217;s senior leader Anand Sharma accused the government of pursuing a &#8220;personalised national policy&#8221; instead of developing one that is based on broad consensus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With regard to Pakistan, we must recognize that Pakistan is our neighbor and a proper roadmap is needed to go forward. Both countries must sit together to iron out issues,&#8221; said Dr Singh, who had been the Prime Minister for a decade before the BJP won a sweeping victory in the 2014 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congress is of a considered view, that the BJP Government has no roadmap and its Pakistan policy has been a disaster. Review of the policy is overdue, and any successful policy can only be based on a national consensus with a focus on both current and long term objectives,&#8221; a resolution read.<br \/>\nAny successful policy can only be based on national consensus, with a focus on both current and long-term objectives, the party said.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing out that successive governments formed by the Congress, starting with first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, had been &#8220;marked with continuity and backed by strong national consensus&#8221;, the party resolution accused the government of conducting the foreign policy in a &#8220;cavalier manner&#8221;. This, the party said, has &#8216;damaged India&#8217;s profile globally and undermined national interest,&#8221; the party&#8217;s resolution said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy: NDTV<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, March 18 (TNS):\u00a0\u00a0The Narendra Modi government&#8217;s foreign policy on Pakistan and China is a &#8220;disaster&#8221; and a review is overdue, the Congress said in its plenary session here on Sunday, Indian media reported. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh underscored the need for a dialogue and the party&#8217;s senior leader Anand Sharma accused the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56896,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56894\/revisions\/56896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}