Ajmer: The spiritual head of Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti ‘s shrine in Ajmer on Friday said that he was opposed to the visit by Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in the wake of the January 2013 beheading of two Indian soldiers along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.
Dewan Zainul Abedin Ali Khan said that as the head of Ajmer Sharif, he would boycott the Pakistani Prime Minister’s visit on Saturday.
“I will not welcome or be present during his visit to the Dargah,” he said.
“The inhuman manner in which Indian soldiers were treated by the Pakistan Army is despicable and condemned it in the strongest of words. It will be a dishonor to the families of the Indian soldiers who were beheaded by their (Pakistan) army,” he added.
“I don’t know his intention of coming here. What message does he want to deliver. But he is coming with a pure heart to preach, then he should have brought the heads of the soldier and should have given to the Indian Prime Minister so that the mothers who did not see the faces of their children even at the time of the funeral, would have got to see their faces,” he said.
He further said he has not done the paper work to organize passes for his family.
The Pakistani Prime Minister will be visiting India on a private visit for a day-long pilgrimage to the Sufi Shrine of Ajmer Sharif.
Ashraf, who will not touch down in New Delhi, will not have any substantive discussions with the Indian side.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, who has ruled out any diplomatic talks with the visiting Pakistani Prime Minister, today said that he would be receiving the visiting dignitary on his private visit to Ajmer Sharif tomorrow as a courtesy.
The dialogue process between the two Asian neighbours was impacted by ceasefire violations on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir in January this year with India lodging a strong protest over the brutal killing of two of its soldiers in the Poonch sector.
Lance Naik Hemraj and Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh were killed by infiltrating Pakistani soldiers in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir on January 8.
Their bodies were found mutilated, sparking a diplomatic face-off between India and Pakistan and tension along the Line of Control that separates the two countries.
Pakistan had denied India’s claim that its troops crossed the Line of Control to ambush a patrol party in the Mendhar sector in Poonch district.
