Recently, Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has announced his decision to formally invite former PM Manmohan Singh, instead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to attend the inaugural ceremony of the landmark Kartarpur Corridor in November. Meanwhile this rare goodwill gesture comes amid heightened India-Pakistan tensions ever since the modi government's decision to scrap Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir on 5 August.

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Reportedly pakistan attempted to justify the decision to invite the senior Congress leader by saying manmohan was a representative of the Sikh community. Qureshi said "We are also very happy to receive the Sikh pilgrims who are coming to Kartarpur to celebrate the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak”.  It was reported that before Manmohan, Congress leader and former Punjab minister Navjod Singh Siddhu was invited to the opening ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor on 28 November, by Imran Khan. 



Moreover this trend has not gone unnoticed by the BJP. modi had slammed the Opposition, calling its leaders as "heroes in Pakistan" and accused pakistan of quoting them to "discredit" India. Perhaps modi had lashed out at the Congress and its 'non-serious attitude' towards national security and said, "They were silent when they had to act".


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