Times of Islamabad

Pakistan turns down India s offer of clandestine meeting: Report

Pakistan turns down India s offer of clandestine meeting: Report

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has refused a proposal for a clandestine meetingbetween visiting foreign ministers of Pakistan and India at the brinks ofthe ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) summit session in NewYork this week, The News has reported.

Pakistan has reminded that it wouldn’t be helping for improvement in thesituation.

Highly placed diplomatic sources told The News here Saturday that tempersare exceptionally high at the UN headquarters since Pakistan and India aretrading barbs and serious accusations against each other publicly. TheUnited Nations witnessed unprecedented fire-work between Pakistan and Indiaduring the ongoing session of the UNGA.

Pakistan’s head of delegation and Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah MahmoodQureshi spoke on Saturday evening session of the UNGA as his Indiancounterpart Ms. Sushma Sawaraj had already spoken in the day. Both theforeign ministers attained significance in the World Body courtesy to theirrhetoric.