ISLAMABAD: It has emerged on Friday that meeting slated to be held between foreign ministers of Pakistan and India on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this month has been cancelled.
Earlier, Indian External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar just a day earlier confirmed that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will meet her Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi in New York in the last week of September. However, later the same spokesperson announced to call off the meeting alleging “unclean intentions on Pakistani side”.
Prime Minister Imran Khan had written to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi calling for a resumption of talks between the nuclear-armed foes.
High-level talks between India and Pakistan are rare. Media described the planned meeting as the first in nearly three years.
Qureshi told ARY News that he was surprised and disappointed over the latest development.
“We had given a positive signal and India too had hinted about negotiations,” he said.
“India has once again shown that it cares more about its own politics than regional peace and stability,” he added.
Asked if Pakistan will approach India again for negotiations, he said: “No, we wanted negotiations in a dignified way.”
Earlier in 2015, high-level negotiations between the neighbouring countries were cancelled hours before they were about to start.
Pakistan felt India’s preconditions for limiting talks as repugnant. It said such talks would be futile to resolve broad range of issues.
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