NEW DELHI: The government this week pulled out of a multilateral Asian coast guard match in Islamabad in an indication that it stays chary of any engagement with Pakistan. India this week hosted Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and terrorism subsidized through authorities in Pakistan ruled the federal government's dialogue schedule with each leaders.
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG), which protects India's offshore wealth and is accountable for enforcement of maritime regulations, was intended to take part in the match which was hung on October 24-25 and which noticed participation from 13 nations.
In an indication of government's initial ambivalence over the issue, MEA had sought and acquired visas from Pakistan for top ICG officers, including the DG. The defence ministry though determined at the remaining moment that this wasn't the proper time for an Indian safety agency to take part in any match in Pakistan at a high stage.
"ICG did not participate in the event and I have nothing more to say about it," said ICG spokesperson R Ok Singh when contacted through TOI.
India's composite bilateral dialogue with Pakistan launched in December 2015 failed to take off on account of the Pathankot airbase attack which was adopted later in 2016 through the strife in J&Ok and the terror attack at an army camp in Uri. The death sentence to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav earlier this yr proved to be the final straw as India called off an engagement on maritime safety between ICG and Pakistan's Maritime Security Agency in April this yr and effectively put all such exchanges on cling.
While it has appointed an interlocutor for Kashmir, the federal government turns out to imagine that the domestic state of affairs in Pakistan, which is predicted to go to polls next yr, does now not name for any critical engagement with Islamabad. The most effective engagement with Pakistan has come in the form of talks on issues associated with the Indus Waters Treaty and the federal government has justified it through announcing that so long as it is party to the Treaty, it remained under felony obligation to attend all meetings mandated through the same.
Official assets here clarified though that now not having any engagement with Pakistan will not have a pertaining to India's position on humanitarian issues. In every other, as an professional described it, goodwill gesture, India is prone to unlock quite a few Pakistan prisoners who have served their sentence in early November.
This was obtrusive also from foreign minister Sushma Swaraj's announcement remaining week that India will provide scientific visas to Pakistan nationals in all, as she said, deserving instances. After the announcement of death sentence to Jadhav, India had tweaked the eligibility standards for such visas through making mandatory an endorsement from the Pakistan foreign minister.
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG), which protects India's offshore wealth and is accountable for enforcement of maritime regulations, was intended to take part in the match which was hung on October 24-25 and which noticed participation from 13 nations.
In an indication of government's initial ambivalence over the issue, MEA had sought and acquired visas from Pakistan for top ICG officers, including the DG. The defence ministry though determined at the remaining moment that this wasn't the proper time for an Indian safety agency to take part in any match in Pakistan at a high stage.
"ICG did not participate in the event and I have nothing more to say about it," said ICG spokesperson R Ok Singh when contacted through TOI.
India's composite bilateral dialogue with Pakistan launched in December 2015 failed to take off on account of the Pathankot airbase attack which was adopted later in 2016 through the strife in J&Ok and the terror attack at an army camp in Uri. The death sentence to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav earlier this yr proved to be the final straw as India called off an engagement on maritime safety between ICG and Pakistan's Maritime Security Agency in April this yr and effectively put all such exchanges on cling.
While it has appointed an interlocutor for Kashmir, the federal government turns out to imagine that the domestic state of affairs in Pakistan, which is predicted to go to polls next yr, does now not name for any critical engagement with Islamabad. The most effective engagement with Pakistan has come in the form of talks on issues associated with the Indus Waters Treaty and the federal government has justified it through announcing that so long as it is party to the Treaty, it remained under felony obligation to attend all meetings mandated through the same.
Official assets here clarified though that now not having any engagement with Pakistan will not have a pertaining to India's position on humanitarian issues. In every other, as an professional described it, goodwill gesture, India is prone to unlock quite a few Pakistan prisoners who have served their sentence in early November.
This was obtrusive also from foreign minister Sushma Swaraj's announcement remaining week that India will provide scientific visas to Pakistan nationals in all, as she said, deserving instances. After the announcement of death sentence to Jadhav, India had tweaked the eligibility standards for such visas through making mandatory an endorsement from the Pakistan foreign minister.
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