{"id":117040,"date":"2017-12-14T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T05:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=117040"},"modified":"2017-12-14T10:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T05:10:30","slug":"pak-quazi-20-meets-advani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/pak-quazi-20-meets-advani\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak Quazi had 20 meets with Advani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Congress leaders of holding \u201csecret meetings\u201d with Pakistani officials over Gujarat elections, there was a time when a senior member of the Indian cabinet actually had \u2018secret meetings\u2019 with the Pakistan high commissioner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-117042 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/modi-fatehpur-759.jpg\" alt=\"Pak Quazi had 20 meets with Advani \" width=\"612\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modi said that there was a \u201cmeeting between former Pakistan high commissioner, former minister of external affairs of Pakistan, former Vice President Hamid Ansari and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh\u201d which was \u201cheld at Mani Shankar Aiyar\u2019s house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe meeting had run for three hours and the next day he called me \u2018neech\u2019\u201d, he added. Manmohan Singh has expressed deep hurt at the \u201cill-advised transgressions\u201d and demanded Modi to apologise to the nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-117045 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Advani-Ashraf.jpg\" alt=\"Advani-Ashraf\" width=\"684\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the \u2018secrecy\u2019 of the current meeting has been stoutly denied, 17 years ago, secret talks were held between the then Union home minister L.K. Advani and Pakistan\u2019s envoy to India during the NDA-I government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2000, Pakistani high commissioner Ashraf Jehangir Qazi had more than 20 \u2018secret\u2019 meetings with Advani. Advani had acknowledged that Thapar had been the go-between in arranging the meetings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Congress leaders of holding \u201csecret meetings\u201d with Pakistani officials over Gujarat elections, there was a time when a senior member of the Indian cabinet actually had \u2018secret meetings\u2019 with the Pakistan high commissioner. Modi said that there was a \u201cmeeting between former Pakistan high commissioner, former minister of external [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[306,56354,266,60206,10812,318],"class_list":["post-117040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-congress","tag-gujarat-elections","tag-modi","tag-pak-quazi-had-20-meets-with-advani","tag-pakistani","tag-prime-minister-narendra-modi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/e333-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}