By Muhammad Luqman
New Delhi has cancelled meeting of Pakistan and India Foreign Ministers scheduled to be held on September 27 in New York, Indian media reported.
Spokesman for the Indian External Affairs, Raveesh Kumar said, “The recent developments show that any dialogue with Pakistan is meaningless.”
According to media reports, India cancelled the meeting over what New Delhi claimed over ‘killing of its three policemen in Indian occupied Kashmir and release of postal stamps glorifying martyred Kashmiri leader Burhan Wani’. However, the analysts believe that Indian government has backtracked from its promise of holding talks with Pakistan due to possibility of backlash in the general elections scheduled to be held by the middle of next year.
On Thursday, following a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan for resumption of dialogues , New Delhi had accepted that Foreign Ministers of two countries will be meeting in New York next week on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session.
Pakistan’s foreign minister has expressed disappointment over Indian decision of not coming to negotiation table. “ India seems to be divided over talks with Pakistan,” Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said.
He said that it seems that India wanted to use Pakistan card during the upcoming general elections.
