India’s Ministry of External Affairs on Friday said Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh will not be conducting any bilateral meetings with his Pakistani counterparts during his upcoming visit to Islamabad.
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Singh will also raise the issue of the slow pace of the probe into the terror attack on the Pathankot airbase, which was carried out by Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad, and the trial of the Mumbai terror attack case in that country, sources said.
At a rally in Lahore on Sunday, accusing Singh of “deploying soldiers in Kashmir to shed the blood of innocents”, Salahuddin threatened to stop him.
What adds insult to injury is the attitude of Indian government after Wani’s killing as over 60 people in Kashmir have been brutally killed. The militancy-hit state has been on the boil since the death of 22-year-old Burhan Wani on July 8 in an encounter in southern Kashmir. The remarks by the Spokesperson come in the backdrop of the reports in the media saying that Mr Singh will have a bilateral with his counterpart Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Meanwhile, Hizbul Mujahideen supreme commander Syed Salahuddin asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to immediately recall its ambassador from New Delhi and “suspend trade and diplomatic ties” with India in the wake of ongoing unrest in the Valley.
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“It would have been better if the Pakistani government had not the Indian home minister in SAARC conference as it would give a wrong message to the Kashmiris”, he said. July 20 was observed as a “black day” to protest the Indian atrocities and a diplomatic effort had been launched to highlight the plight of the Kashmiris.
