New Delhi: Breakfast in Amritsar, lunch in Lahore and dinner in Kabul? That’s food for thought from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as he spoke on how to make border issues irrelevant between India and Pakistan.
"I dream of a day, while retaining our respective national identities, one can have breakfast in Amritsar, lunch in Lahore and dinner in Kabul. That is how my forefathers lived. That is how I want our grandchildren to live," PTI quoted Singh as saying.
He said India wanted to improve ties with Pakistan and generate trust to enable the two countries to sign a peace, security and friendship treaty.
While addressing the industry body FICCI in the Capital, Singh said there were enormous opportunities for promoting mutual cooperation, but to exploit these, "the nations of South Asia have to work sincerely to control the scourge of terrorism and extremism".
The Prime Minister explained that the destiny of people of South Asia was interlinked and India could not be a dynamic economy and a stable polity if the countries in the neighbourhood were also not prosperous and stable.
Similarly, our neighbours would not prosper if India did not do well, he added.
Consequently, he asked the industry to be prepared for a fast-track economic integration in South Asia.
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