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| General VK Singh Attends Pakistan |
| General VK Singh Attends Pakistan Day Dinner, Kashmiri Separatists Invited Too
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| INDIA
, 23-March-2015
11:16:55 AM |
| Pakistan's envoy Abdul Basit stated this morning that he does not think that India will object to his dinner invitation tonight for Kashmiri separatists to join him in celebrating Pakistan's Republic Day. That observation landed with a bit of a clang.
"The Government of India prefers to speak for itself," rebuked Foreign Ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin. "There should be no scope for misunderstanding or misrepresenting India's position on the role of the so-called Hurriyat... there are only two parties and there is no place for a third party in resolution of India-Pakistan issues."
That bout of tension aside, General (retd) VK Singh, the former army chief and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, attended the Pakistani envoy's dinner. "Meeting between separatists and the Pakistani High Commissioner had started during Vajpayee ji's time, and it continued during our times," said the Congress' Mani Shankar Aiyar, who attended the event. "I don't think it has harmed us in any way or has assisted Pakistan in any way."
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"I don't think the Indian government has any objections (to the invite)," said the Pakistani envoy this morning. That assumption placed the government in a tricky spot, said sources. But a short while later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Twitter that he had wished his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif for Pakistan Day.
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