Indian Ministry of External Affairs said that it would not be “appropriate” for Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz to meet with Indian Kashmir’s separatist leaders during his visit to India.
Pakistan’s high commissioner to New Delhi had invited those leaders for a meeting with Aziz.
“Such a meeting would not be in keeping with the spirit and intent of the Ufa understanding to jointly work to combat terrorism,” Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup said in a tweet.
On Thursday India briefly detained some separatist leaders including Syed Ali Geelani, Yasin Malik and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and then released them.
Pakistan on Thursday canceled an upcoming conference of lawmakers from Commonwealth countries after India demanded that legislators from Indian Occupied Kashmir also be included.
