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Film industry can bring India, Pak. closer: Khanna

New Delhi Jan. 30. The new Minister of State for External Affairs, Vinod Khanna, today said the film industry has a role to play in bringing India and Pakistan closer and favoured reciprocal bus diplomacy by the President, Pervez Musharraf to end the current stalemate.

The Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, had undertaken the peace mission to Lahore and Gen. Musharraf should reciprocate, he told reporters when asked if he favoured a different approach to resolve the ongoing standoff.

``President Musharraf should come to India in a bus and shake hands with our Prime Minister'', the 57-year old actor-turned politician said after taking charge of his new assignment.

He felt that ``Bollywood has a role to play in bringing the two countries together''.

He said it was a ``strange'' situation that India allowed Pakistani artistes to perform in this country but the same was not true on the other side.

Hindi films, very popular in Pakistan, had also to be smuggled into that country. — PTI

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