Pilgrimage diplomacy

Zardari with Emomali Rahmon, Dmitry Medvedev and Hamid Karzai

Pilgrimage Diplomacy or Dargah Diplomacy is a new term in political science and international relation. yousually it refer to the officials or politicians travel to a non friend or enemy country under the pretext of pilgrimage or holly shrine but with the aim of political discussion or political visit. Iranian officials travel to Mecca and to Iraqi holy shrine in the 70s and 80s and recently non official travel of President Asif Ali Zardari's "private spiritual journey" to India is consider as pilgrimage diplomacy the private visit to India with the aim of pilgrimage to dargah Ajmer Sharif in India , ended with accept of invitation by Indian prime minister to travel to Pakistan.the mass media has sugested the pilgrimage visit should set the stage for the two sides to tackle contentious issues tentions and obstacles.[1] although a private visit but in the dinner table were most important decision maker of India.national daviser of Indian security and many others. prime minister Singh had accepted Zardari's invitation to visit Pakistan also reiterate New Delhi's demand that "Islamabad prosecute the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai.[2] pilgrimage Diplomacy or "A spiritual journey”of Zardari's visit should now set the stage for the two countries to tackle contentious issues like the probe into the Mumbai attacks and the sharing of river waters. [3]

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• Dargah diplomacy: The Zardari visit [4]
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