Skipped lunch in Pak for India’s prestige: Rajnath

NEW DELHI: A day after he skipped a lunch for Saarc ministers in Islamabad, home minister Rajnath Singh said he did it for the country’s ‘maryada (prestige)’. Singh told Rajya Sabha that Pakistan interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan invited the visiting ministers for lunch “but soon after inviting us, he sat in a car and went off ”. “Keeping in view the norms of conduct, I did what was necessary for the sake of India’s dignity,” he said.