ISI Link? Amarinder Singh Shows Pak Friend With Sushma Swaraj, Others

Posting more than 10 photographs of the journalist with Indian dignitaries including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, the late Union minister Sushma Swaraj, and Union minister Ashwani Kumar on Facebook, Amarinder Singh commented, "I suppose they are all also contacts of the ISI".

Former Punjab Chief Minster Amarinder Singh put up a spirited defence of his friend, Pakistani defence journalist Aroosa Alam, after state Home Minister Sukhjinder Randhawa's threat of investigating her for links with the Pakistan intelligence agency ISI. Posting more than 10 photographs of the journalist with Indian dignitaries including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, the late Union minister Sushma Swaraj, and Union minister Ashwani Kumar on Facebook, he commented, "I suppose they are all also contacts of the ISI".

"I am posting a series of pictures of Mrs Aroosa Alam with various dignitaries. I suppose they are all also contacts of the ISI. Those who say so should think before speaking. Unfortunately visas are banned at the moment between India and Pakistan. Otherwise I would invite her again. Incidentally I am going to be 80 in March and Mrs Alam 69 next year. Narrow minded ness seems to be order of the day," read his Facebook post.

The Punjab home minister's warning to have Aroosa Alam investigated was the Congress's sharpest attack yet on Mr Singh.

The 79-year-old, a Congressman for over four decades and one of the party's biggest mass leaders, had turned against the party after it backed Navjot Singh Sidhu in a bitter, year-long feud that ended with his resignation from the top post.