Up to date: September 30, 2017 four:03 am
Kulbhushan Jadhav. (Supply: Specific photograph by video seize)
India on Friday cited the Afghanistan NSA’s assertion saying there was no proposal to swap Indian nationwide Kulbhushan Jadhav for a terrorist, and asserted that it was one other addition to Islamabad’s “imaginary lies”.
Pakistan International Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif had earlier recommended that he obtained a proposal to swap Jadhav with a terrorist, lodged in an Afghan jail, throughout his assembly with an NSA. Nevertheless, Asif didn’t determine the NSA or the terrorist.
Contradicting Asif’s declare, the workplace of Afghan Nationwide Safety Adviser Mohammad Haneef Atmar issued an announcement saying there was no point out or reference of India or an Indian citizen throughout his assembly with the Pakistani overseas minister in New York on September 21.
Asif had informed a gathering on the Asia Society in New York on September 26 that Pakistan obtained a proposal to swap Jadhav for a terrorist who carried out the 2014 Peshawar faculty assault and is now jailed in Afghanistan.
MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar stated the assertion by the workplace of the Afghan NSA recommended that Asif’s declare was one other addition to the “lengthy record of imaginary lies” by the Pakistani institution. The assertion by Atmar’s workplace stated that throughout the assembly, the 2 sides mentioned quite a lot of points, together with bilateral cooperation. “There was no point out or reference of India or an Indian citizen,” it stated, including Atmar was hopeful the file of the conferences are reported precisely and information not “misconstrued”.
Referring to Pakistan’s use of a “pretend image” within the United Nations Normal Meeting not too long ago, Kumar stated the Pakistan minister’s declare was one other lie. “If in case you have gone by means of the press launch (from Afghan NSA’s workplace), it appears that is yet one more addition to the lengthy record of imaginary lies as tales which have been created by the Pakistani institution,” he stated.
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