It was our fate, says Vajpayee

NEW DELHI, AUG. 18. The Prime Minister, Mr. A.B. Vajpayee, today took a dig at the Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, saying it was in India's fate to have him as its guest.

``We treat guests as gods. We invited Gen. Musharraf and he came. Now if someone asks what kind of a guest he was, then I would say it was perhaps written in our fate to have him as our guest,'' Mr. Vajpayee said at a book release function here attended by the Sangh Parivar leaders.

``You get a guest if you have a good fortune and there must be something good behind it. The way the receiver's name is written on every morsel of food, the guest too might bring some good tidings with him,'' he said.

Gen. Musharraf was criticised for abusing India's hospitality by meeting the Hurriyat leaders in Delhi and by televising an informal chat with editors in Agra.

- PTI

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