Less than 24 hours after accepting Imran Khan’s request, India on Friday cancelled the meeting with Pakistan in New York, latest media reports say.
Less than 24 hours after accepting Imran Khan’s request, India on Friday cancelled the meeting with Pakistan in New York.
The decision was taken after the brutal murder of three policemen in Jammu and Kashmir. Three policemen were abducted from their homes in south Kashmir's Shopian district and shot dead in cold blood by the Hizbul Mujahideen Friday.
Angry over the killings in Kashmir and the murder of BSF jawan along the International Border, furious New Delhi called off the meeting.
It must be noted that there was severe backlash from various quarters of society over the meeting between Sushma Swaraj and her Pakistani counterpart Mehmood Qureshi.
On Thursday, India had agreed to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s request for a meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries.
This was in response to Khan’s letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a meeting was scheduled to take place between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on the sidelines of the United Nations general Assembly session in New York next week.
Addressing media in New Delhi, Raveesh Kumar, spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs had said that the New York schedule is just a meeting and not ‘talks or resumption of dialogue.’
The announcement came hours after Imran Khan’s letter to PM Modi was made public. In the letter dated September 14, Khan wrote that both India and Pakistan owe it to their people to 'resolve all outstanding conflicts, including the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, to bridge differences and achieve a mutually beneficial outcome'.
Evoking Vajpayee, he wrote the former PM believed in building a bridge between India and Pakistan.
"Would be better if the two countries' foreign ministers can meet on the sidelines of UNGA in order to initiate a formal dialogue process that has been pending for long," PM Imran Khan wrote in his letter.
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