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Hina Rabbani Khar mentioned that backchannel diplomacy was fascinating when it was result-oriented (Picture: Twitter)
“At this second, there isn’t a such factor underneath approach,” Minister of State for International Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar advised the Senate – the higher home of parliament
Pakistan mentioned on Thursday that no backchannel talks had been being held between Islamabad and New Delhi.
“At this second, there isn’t a such factor underneath approach,” Minister of State for International Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar advised the Senate – the higher home of parliament.
She added that backchannel diplomacy was fascinating when it was result-oriented.
Individually, International Workplace Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch on the weekly media briefing reiterated Khar’s remarks about no secret diplomatic engagements with India.
“There is no such thing as a backchannel diplomacy between India and Pakistan,” Baloch mentioned.
Talking within the Senate, Khar went on to say that Pakistan had at all times taken initiatives to advertise peace within the area however “proper now, the cross-border hostility [from India] is of a novel kind.” She mentioned that Pakistan was requested at worldwide boards generally to normalise its ties with India, however the world ought to take a look at the messages New Delhi was sending to Islamabad.
“The messages that we’re getting are all conflagratory. Pakistan has the most important curiosity in unleashing [the potential of] this area however when you’ve gotten a authorities on the opposite aspect whose prime minister says that their nuclear property usually are not for Diwali […] then what can we do?” Khar advised the senators.
Her remarks got here days after Indian media reported that New Delhi has invited International Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial to attend the international ministers’ and chief justices’ conferences of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation or SCO in Goa in Could.
Baloch in her briefing mentioned that Pakistan had acquired the invitation which was despatched by India as host of the SCO assembly and was reviewing it.
“The invitation is being reviewed. A choice concerning participation within the assembly will likely be taken after deliberation,” she mentioned.
She mentioned as up to now, the Indian invites are being processed as per commonplace procedures and a call will likely be taken in the end.
The spokesperson additionally mentioned the SCO is a vital trans-regional organisation that goals to strengthen financial linkages and cooperation amongst its member states in several fields.
Speaking concerning the controversial BBC documentary focusing on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Khar mentioned that the broadcaster had proven the world what Pakistan had mentioned already, including that Pakistan had learnt from historical past however some international locations within the area haven’t.
India has been sustaining that it wishes regular neighbourly relations with Pakistan whereas insisting that the onus is on Islamabad to create an atmosphere freed from terror and hostility for such an engagement.
The ties between India and Pakistan got here underneath extreme pressure after India’s warplanes pounded a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist coaching camp in Balakot in Pakistan in February 2019 in response to the Pulwama terror assault.
The relations additional deteriorated after India in August 2019 introduced withdrawing particular powers of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcation of the state into two union territories.
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