Foreign Minister Pak Pak Invites PM Modi to Go to SAARC Summit, Report Shows

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be invited to Pakistan for the ASACR Summit (Association for Regional Cooperation of South Asia), announced today the spokesman of the Pakistani diplomatic office, the press agency Press Trust of India. India boycotted the 2016 SAARC meeting to be held in Pakistan, citing "cross-border terrorist attacks". The meeting had to be canceled after the withdrawal of several other countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan -.

New Delhi's decision to skip the summit was part of the global campaign to isolate Pakistan after four terrorists hit a military base. in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, killing 18 soldiers.

In September, after the death of a soldier and three police officers in Jammu and Kashmir, India refused Pakistan's request to hold a meeting between foreign ministers. A week later, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said that a terrorist action must be taken before any meeting.

"I would like to point out that meetings, including high-level meetings, can only be effective if resolution translates into concrete actions on the ground," the minister said at a meeting. meeting of SAARC Ministers in the margins of the UN General Assembly.

The new meeting comes a few days after a terrorist attack in an Amritsar prayer hall in Punjab, in which three people died.

Punjab Prime Minister Amarinder Singh refused to travel to Pakistan for the inauguration ceremony of a long-awaited hallway for Gurudwara Kartarpur Sabhib, one of the most holy shrines of Sikh. . Yesterday, Mr Singh criticized the Pakistani army chief, Qamar Bajwa, following the attacks, questioning the army 's powers and accusing him of cowardice.

Ms. Swaraj also announced that she would avoid the event, citing the work done by the party before the five-year parliamentary elections. States. India will be represented by the ministers of the Union, Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Singh Puri.

Yesterday, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the 26/11 bombings in Mumbai, in which 166 people were killed, India attacked Pakistan for allowing officials – including the chief from Lashkar-e Taiba, Hafiz Saeed, to roam freely.

"26/11 planners are still roaming the streets of Pakistan with impunity, the 26/11 terrorist attack was planned, executed and launched from Pakistani territory, and we once again call on the Pakistani government to give up double standards and bring the perpetrators of this horrific attack to justice quickly, "the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.