Indian journalist asked to leave Pak foreign secy's press meet in US

New Delhi: An Indian television journalist was asked to leave a news briefing of Pakistan Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry in New York on Monday.

NDTV journalist Namrata Brar was evicted from Chaudhry’s press conference after someone said, “Iss Indian ko nikalo” (remove this Indian).

No other Indian journalist was allowed to attend the briefing either, said the NDTV report.

Pakistan has evaded questions about Sunday's deadly attack in which 18 soldiers were killed at an army base in Uri by terrorists belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammad, whose chief Masood Azhar is based in Pakistan.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is attending the UN meet, waved aside Indian journalists who tried to question him on the Uri attack. Earlier, Pakistan had described India’s allegations as ‘unfounded’ and claimed that the country always blamed Pakistan when it came to terror attacks on its soil.

India for its part took a strategic decision to isolate Pakistan internationally, at a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.