08-25-2009, 10:22 PM
<b>Jaswant to visit Pak to promote his book on Jinnah</b>
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Jaswant jinnah book
Jaswantâs book has been flying off the shelves as sellers in Pak have already sold out the first 150 copies in just a few hours.
With his controversial book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah flying off the shelves in Pakistan, former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh will arrive in Islamabad on Thursday for a tour to promote his work on this country's founder.
The visit, which will take Singh to Islamabad and Karachi, is being kept low key due to security reasons and invitations to speaking engagements by the former BJP leader have been extended only to a select few, one of the organisers of the trip said.
Muhammad Yusuf, director Mr Books, one of Islamabad's best-known book stores that will be hosting Singh in Islamabad, said the author will have a speaking engagement at the posh Islamabad Club in the evening on August 27.
Singh will later sign copies of his book, 'Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence', at the store for an hour.
"We were the first bookstore in Pakistan to bring in Singh's book and it has been flying off the shelves. We have already sold out the first 150 copies and are expecting a second consignment of 500 copies this evening," said Yusuf.
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Singh, who was expelled from the BJP last week after he argued in his book that Jinnah was not solely responsible for the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, will travel to the southern port city of Karachi on August 28.
In Karachi, Singh will be hosted by Liberty Books, one of Pakistan's largest book retailers. He is expected to have speaking engagements and sign copies of his book there too.
Newspaper editorials and columnists have also argued that Singh's reappraisal of Jinnah's role in the partition could help India and Pakistan get over contentious historical issues, thus leading to improved relations in future.
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Jaswant jinnah book
Jaswantâs book has been flying off the shelves as sellers in Pak have already sold out the first 150 copies in just a few hours.
With his controversial book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah flying off the shelves in Pakistan, former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh will arrive in Islamabad on Thursday for a tour to promote his work on this country's founder.
The visit, which will take Singh to Islamabad and Karachi, is being kept low key due to security reasons and invitations to speaking engagements by the former BJP leader have been extended only to a select few, one of the organisers of the trip said.
Muhammad Yusuf, director Mr Books, one of Islamabad's best-known book stores that will be hosting Singh in Islamabad, said the author will have a speaking engagement at the posh Islamabad Club in the evening on August 27.
Singh will later sign copies of his book, 'Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence', at the store for an hour.
"We were the first bookstore in Pakistan to bring in Singh's book and it has been flying off the shelves. We have already sold out the first 150 copies and are expecting a second consignment of 500 copies this evening," said Yusuf.
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Singh, who was expelled from the BJP last week after he argued in his book that Jinnah was not solely responsible for the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, will travel to the southern port city of Karachi on August 28.
In Karachi, Singh will be hosted by Liberty Books, one of Pakistan's largest book retailers. He is expected to have speaking engagements and sign copies of his book there too.
Newspaper editorials and columnists have also argued that Singh's reappraisal of Jinnah's role in the partition could help India and Pakistan get over contentious historical issues, thus leading to improved relations in future.