Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will visit Pakistan to attend the meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation’s (SAARC) home/interior ministers on August 3 and 4.
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“We can not object to them going to a general SAARC meeting because SAARC is an institution that is in all our interest”.
The VOA quoting the Afghan Defence Ministry said this disclosure was made during a meeting between the Afghan and Pakistani military officials in Kabul on Tuesday.
Sources said the home minister may have bilateral meetings with Pakistani politicians during the visit.
The development came as over 50 people have been killed and thousands injured in weeks of unrest in Indian-administered Kashmir, triggered by the death on July 8 of popular pro-independence commander Burhan Wani during a gun battle with Indian forces.
The Lawyers Club in its Executive Body meeting held in Srinagar said that instead of talking sense Indian state was talking like war machine busy in finding alternatives to pellets and bullets. It has happened at a time when Nawaz Sharif has publically owned a self-proclaimed terrorist as a hero, Burhan Wani, and projected him as a leader of Kashmir.
Over two thousand Kashmiri women on Wednesday (July 27) took to the streets of Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan Kashmir, to condemn atrocities being committed by Indian security forces in Indian-held Kashmir.
At a briefing on Friday afternoon, State Department spokesman John Kirby also spoke about mob attacks in India on those suspected of carrying beef and hoped that the Indian government would protect religious minorities.
Key issues like fight against terrorism, illegal trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and small arms and how to make coordinated and concerted efforts to combat such menace will figure in the SAARC meet.
Swarup said India has participated in previous meetings of home ministers and home secretaries.
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It is likely to focus on strengthening networking among police authorities of SAARC member-countries and enhancing information-sharing among law enforcement agencies.
