Author: PTI
Publication: Rediff on Net
Date: January 6, 2004
URL: http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/jan/06saarc4.htm
Pakistan on Tuesday reacted coolly
to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's suggestion of India, Pakistan
and Bangladesh jointly celebrating the 150th anniversary of the 1857 uprising.
The event is considered to be the
first major challenge for the British after they had become the dominant
power in the Indian sub-continent.
"This is food for thought. 1857
has a different connotation for Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. We will
study it (the proposal)," Pakistan Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali
told reporters after the end of the three-day SAARC Summit in Islamabad.
The event is in the news for another
reason. Ketan Mehta is making a film on one of the man whose actions sparked
off the uprising: Mangal Pandey. His role is to be enacted by Aamir Khan.
