“The same fear was when NDA government came into power, BJP government will come [and] it will harden our relations.

But history has shown that Vajpayee proved better friend to Pakistan because when a person is in opposition he is free to speak anything but when he comes in power, in the chair of responsibility then he behaves differently,” said Arora.
 
Senator Mushahid Hussain was Pakistan's information minister when Vajpayee visited the country aboard a bus in 1999. He said Pakistan has changed in the meantime and its parliamentary mainstream no longer uses India to score political points.
 
“The problem lies not in Islamabad but… in New Delhi. Unfortunately, in India, sometimes a lot of these issues are hostage to domestic electoral politics.

In Pakistan, I want to make it very clear for the last five elections India has not been an election issue in Pakistan.