Pakistan to attend Heart of Asia moot in India

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will attend the Heart of Asia conference in India, said Advisor to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Monday, in what is widely seen in diplomatic circles as an attempt to stop India’s efforts to isolate Pakistan. Aziz said on Monday that Pakistan will participate in the regional moot, aimed at promoting peace and co-operation between Afghanistan and its neighbours. The conference is scheduled to take place in the first week of December in Amritsar, India. “Pakistan will continue to attend all international forums,” he said. Pakistan’s announcement to participate in the regional conference comes at a time when its traditional rival state has announced that it will use its entire diplomatic leverage in efforts to isolate it on international level, while maintaining a position of relative restraint on the Line of Control itself. The adviser demanded India to allow United Nations (UN) observer group to visit its side of the LoC, like Pakistan did. “India has continuously been violating UN resolutions on Kashmir,” he maintained, adding that a very effective campaign on the Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK) commenced from July 8. Moreover, Aziz said that dossiers on Kulbhushan Yadav, a serving Indian navy officer arrested from Balochistan while spying for RAW, were in final phase of preparation. Pakistan is likely to hand these dossiers to the UN and other world states to apprise them of India’s sponsoring of terrorism within on Pakistani soil.