ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Sunday while rejecting Indian media reports as“misleading” said that Indian proposal to appoint Jayant Khobragade asCharge d’ Affaires at its high commission was incommensurate withPakistan’s decision to downgrade diplomatic ties with India.
In a statement, the Foreign Office spokesperson said that the leakingmisleading information and twisting facts was not only contrary todiplomatic norms but was also not helpful in the conduct of diplomaticrelations.
He said the news reports of some Indian media, quoting sources in theIndian Ministry of External Affairs, regarding assignment visa for seniorIndian diplomat Jayant Khobragade proposed as Charge d’ Affaires at theIndian High Commission in Islamabad, were misleading.
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He said following India’s illegal and unilateral actions of August 5, 2019in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Pakistan took anumber of steps, including the downgrading of diplomatic relations withIndia. The purpose of downgrading the relations was to register Pakistan’sstrong protest and condemnation of India’s illegal, inhuman andunacceptable actions in IIOJK.
