The statement said as per normal practice, India had reviewed staffing and related policies for its mission in Islamabad, “including in view of prevailing circumstances at those stations”.
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India on Monday declared Pakistan a “non-school mission”, asking its officials in the High Commission in Islamabad to withdraw their children from schools there, indicating further deterioration in relations between the two countries.
There are no school-going children of Indian high commission officials studying in Pakistan during the current academic session which began in April, sources added. According to Nafees Zakaria, a spokesman of foreign office, “This is an informal, internal, administrative arrangement we were informed of two months back”.
This right has been promised to the people of Kashmir by the United Nation (UN) Security Council, Sartaj Aziz said in a statement issued by the Foreign Office.
Their children are ferried to schools in these special vehicles.
Taking on Sharif for his comments that his good wishes are with the people of Kashmir, Swaraj said, “Sadly, it’s not Pakistan’s good wishes or moral or diplomatic support but its weapons and terrorism that it has exported to Jammu and Kashmir”. India’s claim on Kashmir as its integral part is hollow with the fact that in central India, crowd control is achieved using water cannons whereas in Kashmir, bullets and pellets are fired on unprotected people. “Let us not forget as one Indian writer has reminded us that not long ago the British labelled Indian freedom fighters as traitors and terrorists because at that time India was considered an integral part of the British Empire”.
Decision after tension with Pakistan over Kashmir issue.
In 2009, a blast near the American school had been a shocker for many foreign diplomats. “It actually shows the callous attitude of Indian leaders towards Kashmir”, he said, deploring that killers of more than fifty innocent Kashmiris are being dubbed as saviours by Indian leaders and their Kashmiri stooges but killers are killers and can never become saviours.
By declaring the withdrawal of all school-going children just four days later, New Delhi is signalling that it isn’t satisfied with Islamabad’s response to its request, officials said.
Meanwhile, the mission’s president Prof Dr Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry said if the Indian government does not allow its medical team to travel to Srinagar to treat the injured Kashmiris it would hold demonstrations against it.
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