{"id":310735,"date":"2019-03-22T06:09:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T06:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310735"},"modified":"2019-03-22T06:09:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T06:09:29","slug":"delhi-indian-government-to-stay-away-from-pakistans-national-day-event-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-indian-government-to-stay-away-from-pakistans-national-day-event-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: Indian government to stay away from Pakistan\u2019s National Day event today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310737 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pak-HC-1-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/pak-HC-1-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/pak-HC-1.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The government of India has decided not to send an official representative to the Pakistan National Day event in New Delhi on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources the government took the decision for not sending any representative to the reception because Hurriyat leaders have also been invited by Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Pakistan National Day is observed every year on March 23, however, the Pakistan high commission is hosting the reception this year on March 22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sources said India had strongly objected to Pakistan\u2019s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi telephoning Hurriyat leaders ahead of an event organised in London to mark Islamabad\u2019s solidarity with a Kashmir-related event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Previously, Indian political representatives who have attended Pakistan\u2019s National Day events include the minister of State for external affairs V.K. Singh and minister of state for agriculture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat as well as former minister of state for external affairs M.J Akbar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of India has decided not to send an official representative to the Pakistan National Day event in New Delhi on Friday. According to the sources the government took the decision for not sending any representative to the reception because Hurriyat leaders have also been invited by Pakistan. The Pakistan National Day is observed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,2014],"tags":[11176,11177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310738,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310735\/revisions\/310738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}