Pakistan FM claims Manmohan Singh accepted Kartarpur Corridor opening invite

New Delhi: Former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh has accepted Pakistan’s invitation to the inaugural ceremony of the landmark Kartarpur Corridor, claimed Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Pakistan’s Capital TV.

“I had invited former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh. I’m thankful to him, he wrote me a letter and said, ‘I’ll come but not as chief guest but an ordinary man.’ We’ll welcome him even if he comes as an ordinary man,” stated the Foreign Minister of Pakistan as per news agency ANI.

Even after Qureshi had earlier spoken about Pakistan’s decision to invite Singh to the opening ceremony of Kartarpur Corridor, the Congress party in India remained tight-lipped. Earlier, sources had said that Manmohan Singh is unlikely to accept the invitation as he had never visited Pakistan in his 10-year tenure as India’s Prime Minister.