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India rejects Pakistan's call for third party mediation | Defence Minister AK Antony on Tuesday rejected Pakistan's demand for third party mediation in Indo-Pak disputes. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who is in Beijing , called for Chinese
mediation ahead of the Indo-Pak foreign secretaries meet in New Delhi , starting
on February 25. Qureshi said that Pakistan has urged China to mediate between
Islamabad and New Delhi as a third party, and asked India not to keep terror as
the focus of the talks. Speaking at the felicitation ceremony for scientists of
the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) during the 34th
directors
conference, Antony said: "We are not in favour of involvement of any third country
in talks between India and Pakistan ." " India 's basic policy is that we don't
want any interference from any country in our bilateral relations with Pakistan
. We don't believe in third party mediation," he added. Earlier in the day, Antony
said the issue of the beheading of two Sikhs in Peshawar would be taken up during
the foreign secretary-level talks. Antony said: "Anyway we are talking to the
foreign secretary on February 25, certainly we will take up the issue with foreign
secretary also." The Pakistani Taliban kidnapped two men, identified as Jaspal
Singh and Mahal Singh, along with two others a month ago from Bara in the Khyber
Agency. A ransom of 30 million rupees was demanded for their safe return. India
's Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao will meet her Pakistani counterpart Salman
Bashir to try and end a diplomatic freeze between the two nations after the 26/11
Mumbai terror attacks. |
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