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Prime Minister Imran Khan, his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. PHOTO: FILE
NEW DELHI: India will not invite Prime Minister Imran Khan to the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi on Thursday, who begins his second term as Premier Indian minister, sources said.
said Monday the leaders of Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan – all members, along with India, of the little known initiative of the Bay of Bengal
for multisectoral technical and economic cooperation
BIMSTEC) – were invited to the swearing in of Modi.
"This goes in the direction of attention that the government accords to its" neighborhood first "policy," said a government spokesman. The leaders of Kyrgyzstan and Mauritius were also invited, but two sources from the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Pakistan would not be on the list without providing additional information. 19659004] All countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), including Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Maldives, were invited to the inauguration ceremony of Modi's first term of office. in 2014.
In 2014, then Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attended the ceremony, angered by some Hindu nationalist allies of Modi.
Modi could still meet with Prime Minister Imran at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Kyrgyzstan next month, to which both leaders could attend.
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