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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about Pakistan government publications showing Junagadh and Manavadar towns in the state as disputed Pakistani territories.
In his letter, Modi has said the matter was very serious and it should not be ignored by us.
The chief minister has recommended that forceful resistance to such misleading presentation should be registered with Pakistan government and said the matter should be taken up at the secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan.
"Gujarat being a border state, it is very sensitive to any misadventures of Pakistan and I have come across some publications of government of Pakistan, wherein based on the intentions of the then nawabs' (rulers) of these two territories Pakistan is still showing them as disputed.
"Hence, the matter seems to be very important and needs to be condemned and sorted out at the earliest," he has written.
At the time of partition, the Muslim
rulers of Junagadh, 327 Km from Ahmedabad, and the nearby Manavadar wanted
their princely states to be merged with Pakistan. However, their plans
did not materialise and the territories were merged with union of India.
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