BJP Leader

 Published in 2004

The BJP Leader L. K. Advani was born in Karachi and spent the first 20 years of his life in this city. However, your correspondents have often said that Mr. Advani was born in Hyderabad and even in your issue of April 19, the news item "Advani sees progress" (page 3), your correspondence has stated, "... he was likely to go to Pakistan in coming June and also visit his birthplace in Hyderabad."

A report in The Times of India on March 9, 2002, had quoted Mr. Advani as saying: "My birthplace is Karachi. I had spent the first 20 years of my life there. It is natural for me to feel happy when I get an invitation, I had visited it only once in 1978 in the last 50 years."

SHAKIR LAKHANI

Karachi.