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Talks and Terror can’t go together- Bipin Rawat  


Date:- 22 Oct 2018


Amit Baruah   

A top official in the Prime Minister’s Office, asked by this correspondent whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi or the PMO was consulted before the announcement was made, directed all queries to the External Affairs Ministry. Asked whether Ms. Swaraj had held prior consultations before asking for the announcement to be made, Ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar chose not to give an immediate response. The spokesman was contacted for a comment on Tuesday.

On August 18 Prime Minister Narendra Modi had written to his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan, congratulating him on becoming Prime Minister.

“The letter which we have received is in response to that [Mr. Modi’s] letter which was handed over to us by the High Commissioner of Pakistan to India on 17th September. At the same time, on the same day another letter was handed over from the Pakistani Foreign Minister to our External Affairs Minister basically reiterating the Prime Minister of Pakistan’s proposal for a meeting between the External Affairs Minister and the Pakistani Foreign Minister on the sidelines of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly session,” a transcript of Mr. Kumar’s September 20 briefing said. Mr. Kumar was also asked at the same briefing while announcing the meeting of the Foreign Ministers about the September 18 killing of a BSF jawan by the Pakistani side.

“We are ascertaining facts on this matter, on this barbaric incident, which not only defies logic, not only defies civilised behavior but also is against all international norms. I understand that the BSF has strongly taken up the matter with its counterpart on the Pakistani side,” the spokesman stated.

Courtesy: Hindu: 22nd Oct  2018