No backchannel talks with India, says Pakistan’s Foreign Office
Pakistan mentioned on Thursday that no backchannel talks have been being held between Islamabad and New Delhi.
Islamabad,UPDATED: Mar 3, 2023 09:47 IST
No backchannel talks between Pakistan and India, mentioned Islamabad
By Press Trust of India: Pakistan mentioned on Thursday that no backchannel talks have been being held between Islamabad and New Delhi.
“At this stage, there is no backchannel between Pakistan and India,” Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch mentioned on the weekly media briefing right here whereas responding to a query.
India has been sustaining that it wishes regular neighbourly relations with Pakistan whereas insisting that the onus is on Islamabad to create an atmosphere freed from terror and hostility for such an engagement.
The ties between India and Pakistan got here below extreme pressure after India’s warplanes pounded a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist coaching camp in Balakot in Pakistan in February 2019 in response to the Pulwama terror assault.
The relations additional deteriorated after India in August 2019 introduced withdrawing particular powers of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcation of the state into two union territories.
Baloch additionally alleged that India’s Kishanganga and Ratle Hydroelectric Projects had been developed in violation of the bilateral Indus Water Treaty.
She mentioned that proceedings of a case have been presently underway earlier than a Court of Arbitration in The Hague and a impartial knowledgeable pertained to the dispute on the Kishanganga and Ratle Hydroelectric Projects.
“Pakistan believes that these projects were developed in violation of the provisions of the Indus Waters Treaty. So, Pakistan is ably represented in these proceedings; we believe we have a solid case,” she said.
Baloch also said the latest report by EU Disinfo Lab once again corroborates Pakistan’s long-held position about some Indian media outlets’ unrelenting smear campaign against Islamabad.
To a question about Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi’s visit to Pakistan, she said during his trip, there was no discussion on Pakistan’s nuclear programme which is “defensive in nature”.
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Devika Bhattacharya
Published On:
Mar 3, 2023
