With quiet diplomacy, India foils Pakistan’s K-event in UK

Times of India, TNN, Feb 06, 2019

NEW DELHI: India’s quiet diplomacy with the UK, including a demarche asking the British government to not allow its soil to be used for propaganda against India, ensured that Pakistan backed events on the so called 
 were a non-starter, government sources familiar with the issue said.

UK maintained all along that Pakistan foreign minister S M Qureshi was in 
London
 on a private visit and that no government official was going to interact with him. According to authorities here, Pakistan officials even tried to arrange an “accidental” meeting for Qureshi with senior UK government officials but that too was apparently not granted.

Most of the MPs who joined the 
Kashmir
 conference on British Parliament premises were said to be of Pakistani origin. The conference was attended by former Norway PM Kjell Bondevik who was in news recently for his visit to Srinagar where he held talks with representatives of Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry, J&K Youth Development Forum and All Party Hurriyat Conference. Foreign minister 
Sushma Swaraj
 had then clarified that India had no role in organising his visit or any of his meetings.

The conference in British Parliament was organised by UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Pakistan (APPG-Pakistan) chairperson Rehman Chisti. However, several senior members of the group stayed away from the conference. Shadow foreign secretary of Labour Party Emily Thornberry and MP 
Debbie Abrahams
, reports from London said, attended the event.


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