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Rahul accepts Bilawal's invite to visit
Pakistan
Sunday April 08, 2012 05:05:05 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad:
India's ruling Congress party general secretary Rahul Gandhi was
invited to visit Pakistan by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of
President Asif Ali Zardari, and has accepted the invite, it was
reported here Sunday.
Bilawal, 24, the Pakistan Peoples Party chairman, has accompanied
his father on his day-long trip to India where they were invited
for lunch at Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence in
New Delhi.
The News International reported from New Delhi that Bilawal, who
was seated next to Rahul Gandhi at the lunch at 7, Race Course
Road, invited the 41-year-old Indian leader to visit Pakistan and
the latter accepted the invitation.
Bilawal, born Sep 21, 1988, is the eldest child and only son of
late former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
After the lunch, Zardari and his entourage left for Ajmer in the
Indian state of Rajasthan to offer prayers at the shrine of Sufi
saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti.
A black belt in taekwondo, he is currently studying history at
Christ Church, the same Oxford University college that his
grandfather Zulfiqar Bhutto attended. His mother was a graduate of
the same university, said yet another Facebook page.
Bilawal was appointed chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party Dec
30, 2007, days after his mother's assassination.
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