Pakistan and India boycotted each other’s statements at a meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Foreign Ministers here on Thursday.
Pakistan has been protesting India’s decision to boycott the SAARC summit due to be held in Islamabad since 2016, until cross-border terrorism ends, which has meant that the SAARC summit, which requires all leaders to attend, cannot be held.
India has engaged all other SAARC members at different fora.
India and G7 Summit 2019
The G7 summit addressed a host of issues from climate change to India’s membership for the Nuclear Suppliers’ groups (NSG) and the global trade, taxation mechanism for technology companies among others.
But the big focus was also on India’s move to do away with Article 370 on Jammu and Kashmir. The move Pakistan has been trying to take up at the international level but the world has once again thrown their weight behind India and reiterated that Kashmir is a solely an internal issue of India.
