Congress president Sonia Gandhi will visit Pakistan accepting an invitation by President Pervez Musharraf, External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh indicated here today.
"Soniaji has been invited to Pakistan and I hope a program would be chalked out for her visit," Singh said at a function in the PCC office here to felicitate him.
"I believe that Soniaji would go to Pakistan where she would certainly receive a big welcome from its people," he said.
Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, Singh said, had visited Pakitan when Indian cricket team was playing there and both received warm welcome there. "You can imagine how big reception Soniaji would get in Pakistan when she goes there," he added. 

It is one thing to be welcome in Pakistan as a non-hindu leader and it is something else to play with national security issues. The problem is She may not be qualified to discuss the Kashmir issue and might create a blunder that India will repent for next hundred years. 

For example, according to External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh, India expects Pakistan to accept Kashmir Settlement based on Shimla accord. Pakistan is stubborn as hell not to accept the same. That is the main dispute between India and Pakistan.

When Sonia visits Pakistan, two things will happen. She will learn for the first time that Musharraf literally wants her to “give” Kashmir to Pakisatn. At that point She will decide “yes” or “no”. If the answer is yes, India will be engulfed in civil war. If the answer is no, India-Pakistan talks will end and it might the root of a new cold or real war between India and Pakistan.

Sonia or for that matter Congress and UPA may not be the right party to negotiate with Pakistan. For example, Pakistan will not respond positively because it does not want to give up its claim on Kashmir Valley on the "principle" that as a Muslim majority region contiguous to Pakistan it should be included in Pakistan. This "principled Stand" of Pakistan can be countered by taking a similar "principled stand" in regard to Lahore and Thar-Par-Kar now held by Pakistan. Lahore was contiguous to Hindu majority part of Punjab and lies to the East of the Ravi which could form a natural boundary between East Punjab and West Punjab. Majority of its inhabitants were Hindus and they owned over 80% of its movable and immovable property. Therefore according to the criteria laid down for Radcliffe commission, Lahore should have been awarded to India. 
Thar-Par-Kar district of Sindh originally belonged to Jodhpur state It should have been restituted to Jodhpur before the British left India for good. Even otherwise it should have been awarded to India because it is contiguous to India and more than 80% of its population was Hindu. 
Had India followed the example of Islamic Pakistan it too could have changed the complexion of population of Kashmir valley as Pakistan has done in Lahore and Thar- Par-Kar. India therefore would be perfectly justified in laying claim on Lahore and Thar-Par-Kar if Pakistan persists in claiming Kashmir for Pakistan. 

Kashmir issue is complex. The current leadership in India may not be really qualified to address this properly.