India on Monday confirmed Pakistani newspaper reports that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has termed Islamabad a “non-school” posting for Indian diplomats.
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The MEA declared the High Commission of India in Islamabad as a “no-school-going-mission” in view of the deteriorating security situation in Pakistan.
In a new low in its bilateral relations with Pakistan, India has advised its staff in Islamabad High Commission not to send their children to local schools. According to India, Pakistan, instead of toning down the rhetoric, has further aroused passion with its PM Nawaz Sharif declaring last week that one day Kashmir would become Pakistan.
Pakistan foreign office has told NDTV.
This has incensed Swaraj who claimed that Burhan was a wanted terrorist for India.
There are about 50 children of Indian officials now studying in Islamabad’s American School. Ever since Taliban gunmen broke into a school in Peshawar and opened fire, killing 132 students and nine staff, the diplomats have been very careful. “No other considerations were communicated to us”, Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said.
Separatist Kashmiri groups holding a protest outside the premises of India’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in NY on July 17, 2016.
Singh accused Pakistan of inflaming violence in the Indian-Occupied Kashmir after Islamabad announced a “black day” to show solidarity with Kashmir residents living under the Indian occupation.
Burhan Muzzaffar Wani, the 22-year-old commander of Kashmir’s largest pro-independence militant group Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), the courageous young martyr who Swaraj branded a “wanted terrorist”, drew huge crowds of over 200,000 Kashmiris in the funeral prayers in 50 different locations throughout Indian-occupied Kashmir, despite a strict curfew.
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“India is one of the largest economies of the world and it is natural for the global community not want to disrupt an economic power for the sake of few thousand people in Kashmir”, he said. This means that diplomatic staff can no longer make their schoolgoing children stay with them. Ten other children study at the Roots International School. The diplomatic missions may be “no-kid” missions or they may include family travel. Many children from the diplomatic community attend this school. The will of the Kashmiri people is more than apparent. From our end, we will aim to show clean and unobtrusive ads to provide you with a great browsing experience.
