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ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan on
Thursday
announced that it
will not host next
month's
Commonwealth
Parliamentary
Union meeting amid
a row with India
over its refusal to
invite the speaker
of Jammu &
Kashmir assembly
for the conference.
India had threatened to boycott the
Commonwealth Parliamentary
Conference to be held here from
September 30 to October 8 after
Islamabad refused to invite Jammu &
Kashmir assembly speaker Kavinder
Gupta for the event.
The conference was to bring together
speakers of Commonwealth nations in
Islamabad.
"We have clarified to the London
Secretariat of the Commonwealth that
Kashmir is a disputed territory and now
it is impossible for the Commonwealth
Conference to be held in Pakistan,"
National Assembly speaker Ayaz Sadiq
told reporters.
He said the event will now be held in
New York.
Pakistan on
Thursday
announced that it
will not host next
month's
Commonwealth
Parliamentary
Union meeting amid
a row with India
over its refusal to
invite the speaker
of Jammu &
Kashmir assembly
for the conference.
India had threatened to boycott the
Commonwealth Parliamentary
Conference to be held here from
September 30 to October 8 after
Islamabad refused to invite Jammu &
Kashmir assembly speaker Kavinder
Gupta for the event.
The conference was to bring together
speakers of Commonwealth nations in
Islamabad.
"We have clarified to the London
Secretariat of the Commonwealth that
Kashmir is a disputed territory and now
it is impossible for the Commonwealth
Conference to be held in Pakistan,"
National Assembly speaker Ayaz Sadiq
told reporters.
He said the event will now be held in
New York.