The SAARC meeting held in Delhi on Thursday was attended by top diplomats, but Pakistan sent a junior official to the high-profile event, which diplomats said was a snub to India over its belligerent attitude towards Islamabad. The move is seen in New Delhi as a bid to undermine India as tensions continue to simmer between the two countries over the situation in Kashmir and the more recent Uri attack.
According to a Hindustan Times report, Pakistan decided against sending any senior diplomats to the two-day meeting which is being hosted on the recommendation of the SAARC Ministerial Declaration on Cooperation in Combating Terrorism.
The newspaper said Pakistan’s Director General of Intelligence Bureau was supposed to be at the Delhi meet, but the country decided to send counsellor-level officers instead of him.
A statement from the Home Ministry also confirmed that while all countries, i.e., Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Maldives sent their top diplomats; Pakistan was the only nation which sent junior officers.
No wonder, it was much anticipated.
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