April 10, 2008
Lata Mangeshkar expresses her desire to visit Pakistan
Islamabad: Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar has said she will be very happy if her singing can improve relations between India and Pakistan.
Mangeshkar, who has never visited Pakistan, said she was once invited to perform in the neighbouring country during the rule of late Gen Zia-ul-Haq but the show was called off at the last minute.
“Everything was finalised and then the show was cancelled at the last minute. The organisers said they could not take responsibility for the show,” she told Dawn News channel in an interview aired on Monday night.
When the interviewer told her that a Pakistani poet had written a poem in which an Indian and a Pakistani arguing over Kashmir in a tea shop stopped squabbling after the owner of the establishment played a Lata Mangeshkar song, she said,
“If this happens, it will be very good.”