Senior Indian politician Anil Kumar Shastri earlier yesterday visited the Quaid-e-Azam House, near Flagstaff House, in the megalopolis of Karachi and donated six Pakistani flags.
Shastri, who is the son of former Indian premier Lal Bahadur Shastri, arrived in Karachi on Saturday on what is his maiden tour of Pakistan. The senior Indian Congress leader had visited the Quaid’s mausoleum over the weekend before visiting the museum on Monday.
“I respect (Mohammad Ali) Jinnah sahib very much,” Shastri said as he inspected belongings of Pakistan’s founding father at the museum. “I looked [at] his photos and observed his personality through them”.
However, Shastri also had a few complaints.
“I was very much upset with the (state of the) façade of the building and area around it,” he said “It is a great place and should be maintained properly.”
“We waited there for a guide but there was only a security guard present,” said Shastri who was visiting the Quaid’s Karachi residence along with his wife and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid local leader Haleem Adil Sheikh.
Referring to his father’s residence in the Indian city of Varanasi, Shastri said it too had been converted into a museum and is maintained by the Indian government.
