New Delhi: Pro-Pakistan hawks and Kashmiri hardline figures Syed Ali Geelani and Asiya Andrabi among others have apparently been invited by Pakistan to attend ‘Pakistan Day’ function at its High Commission in New Delhi on March 23.
According to news agency reports, besides them, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik and Hurriyat’s moderate faction chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq have also been called to attend the event.
MoS in Prime Minister’s Office Jitendra Singh has also been reportedly invited to the function. However, sources were cited as saying it is unlikely that he will attend the function.
Invitations had also been sent to senior officials in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and it also appears likely that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Minister of State for External Affairs Gen. (retd.) V.K. Singh would have been invited. The MEA now has to take a call on who will represent it at the function.
