New Delhi, July 27 (ANI): A charmed Indian External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna on Wednesday invited Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar to visit southern India, especially his home city of Bangalore, after she informed him that she had come to India twice before her latest visit.
Krishna extended the invitation to Khar ahead of the foreign minister-level talks being held at Hyderabad House here. The two leaders also delivered opening statements ahead of their talks.
According to sources, there was no awkardness between an elderly Krishna and 34-year-old Khar, who was recently appointed Pakistan's foreign minister after serving in a junior capacity in the Foreign Office for about five months. She was earlier a junior minister for economic affairs.
Krishna is often known to extend invitations to foreign dignitaries to visit Bangalore. In the recent past, he had extended a similar invitation to U.S.President Barack Obama, when the latter was on a visit to India in November last year.
President Obama, however, could not accept the invitation to visit Bangalore, reportedly due to domestic political compulsions back home.
Bangalore is regarded as India's hi-tech capital and the centre of the outsourcing industry that Obama has in the recent past blamed for taking American jobs.
Obama had launched a 'Say no to Bangalore and yes to Buffalo', slogan last year, to highlight his concern over outsourcing American jobs to India and China (Beijing). By Smita Prakash (ANI)
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