{"id":312828,"date":"2019-06-02T08:36:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T08:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312828"},"modified":"2019-06-02T11:37:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T11:37:09","slug":"omar-slams-harassment-of-guests-at-iftar-by-indian-high-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/omar-slams-harassment-of-guests-at-iftar-by-indian-high-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar slams harassment of guests at Iftar by Indian High Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299413 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Omar-abdullah-1-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Omar-abdullah-1-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Omar-abdullah-1-768x682.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Omar-abdullah-1-696x618.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Omar-abdullah-1-473x420.jpg 473w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Omar-abdullah-1.jpg 835w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former J&amp;K Chief Minister and the Vice president of\u00a0 National Conference Omar Abdullah has criticised Pakistan for harassment of guests at an Iftar party hosted by the Indian High Commission in Islamabad teeming it \u201cstupid tit for tat diplomacy\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cStupid tit for tat diplomacy. It was stupid when we did it outside the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi &amp; it\u2019s stupid when it\u2019s done outside our\u2019s in Islamabad. Now that it\u2019s 1-1 perhaps it\u2019s time to move on &amp; stop this nonsense,\u201d Omar wrote on Twitter.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Saturday evening, guests invited to the Indian High Commission\u2019s Iftar party in Islamabad\u00a0 faced\u00a0 harassment due to\u00a0 security checks by the Pakistani officials who stopped some invitees .<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian High Commissioner Ajay Bisaria hosted the annual event at Serena Hotel for which guests were invited from all over Pakistan.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Invitees to the event said additional security deployment was made around the luxury hotel.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking at the event, Indian High Commissioner Ajay Bisaria confirmed the incident and also apologised to those who had been subjected to extra scrutiny.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Pakistan High Commission in India reported a similar incident last week as guests arriving for an Iftar reception were allegedly harassed by Indian security personnel.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former J&amp;K Chief Minister and the Vice president of\u00a0 National Conference Omar Abdullah has criticised Pakistan for harassment of guests at an Iftar party hosted by the Indian High Commission in Islamabad teeming it \u201cstupid tit for tat diplomacy\u201d. \u201cStupid tit for tat diplomacy. It was stupid when we did it outside the Pakistani High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[10884,868],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312828"}],"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=312828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312829,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312828\/revisions\/312829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}