New Delhi: Journalist and Baba Ramdev close associate Ved Prakash Vaidik has landed in yet another controversy saying that there is no harm if Kashmir is made an independent nation. Vaidik has already landed in controversy over his meeting with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
Speaking to a Pakistan-based news channel, Vaidik said that both India and Pakistan should stop fighting over Kashmir and make it an independent nation. Reacting to the controversy over his interview to Dawn News, Vaidik said India and Pakistan should work to build a bridge rather than a gorge.
Defending his meet, Vaidik had said that he has been meeting all kinds of people and it was a simple thing” for him. Journalists in Pakistan know me for decades. They made a gesture (about meeting Saeed) to me and I said alright I will meet him. It was no big deal for me. It was a simple thing. For me it was like a normal meeting. I have been meeting the Maoists of Nepal, Taliban of Afghanistan, he had said.
Vaidik had met Saeed, chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which controls terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba, in Lahore on July 2 while touring Pakistan along with a group of journalists and politicians invited by a peace research institute. The issue had sparked off a major controversy with Congress targeting Prime Minister’s Office saying that the government must have been aware of the meeting in advance.
Bureau Report
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