Indian officials did not rule out the possibility of a “tit-for-tat” response by Islamabad in the form of recall of children of Pakistan diplomats from India.
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She had said that for India Burhan was a wanted terrorist.
The high commission is located deep inside Islamabad’s fortified diplomatic enclave, while the ISOI is 11km away on the outskirts of the city. At that time, India purchased bullet proof vehicles and the Indian diplomats and their kids are today travelling in these buses.
The mission faced a quandary.
Instead of reaching out to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and opening communications channels, India has enforced a complete lockdown on the millions of inhabitants of the Valley since 8th July. If children were sent back, either the officer or at least a spouse was likely to want to return.
He said the government and the people of Pakistan remained firmly committed in their moral diplomatic and political support to the Kashmiris indigenous movement for self-determination and resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant UN Security Council resolutions on Kashmir.
India is “worried about the situation in Kashmir”, he told reporters.
“As far as Pakistan is concerned, politicking of the current circumstances (in Jammu and Kashmir) by its mainstream politicians will only undermine its own stance”, the Daily Times said in an editorial.
Zakaria said India had informed Pakistan about the decision nearly one and half months ago.
Reacting quickly to India’s move, Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria in Islamabad said, “This is an informal, internal, administrative arrangement we were informed of two months back”. “No other considerations were communicated to us”. “This was a decision taken in June, 2015, as part of our normal assessment of working conditions in each Indian Mission and Post”. United Kingdom does not allow children of diplomats below twelve years of age.
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SRINAGAR: The Indian government said Sunday that Pakistan should stop provoking unrest in the Indian-controlled portion of the disputed Kashmir region, appealing for calm and restraint by people and government forces after two weeks of bloody protests that have left dozens of civilians dead. Downgrading a mission to “no-school going” is a sign of heightened security risk in that country or of possible skirmishes between the countries concerned.
