Trump seventh US president to visit India since 1959
(WorldNews Pakistan)

LAHORE: The sitting American head of state, Donald Trump, is the Seventh US President to land on the Indian soil since December 1959, when one of his predecessors, Dwight Eisenhower, was greeted with a 21-gun salute at New Delhi. Eisenhower was followed by Richard Nixon in August 1969. Nixon, according to “BBC News,” had been in India as US vice-president in 1953. Before that, Nixon had toured India on personal trips. Then came Jimmy Carter in 1978. The “BBC News” had written: “His two-day visit had marked a thaw in India-US relations, it was not free of hiccups. With some 500 reporters in tow, Mr Carter...