08-08-2004

Pakistan honors Indian leader

via washingtontimes.com

Pakistan will turn the birthplace of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh into a model village as an act of goodwill, the government said Thursday.

Singh, 71, was born into a poor Sikh family in Gah, Pakistan, a rural backwater about 50 miles southwest of Islamabad in Punjab province. He completed his primary school education there in the 1930s…