{"id":314520,"date":"2019-08-08T08:22:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T08:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314520"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:55:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:55:16","slug":"pakistans-decision-to-downgrade-ties-presents-alarming-picture-to-world-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistans-decision-to-downgrade-ties-presents-alarming-picture-to-world-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s decision to downgrade ties, presents alarming picture to world: India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314521 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/india-pakistan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/india-pakistan.jpg 581w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/india-pakistan-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India on Thursday asked Pakistan to review its decision\u00a0to downgrade diplomatic and trade ties after its decisions on Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have seen reports that Pakistan has decided to take certain unilateral actions in respect to its bilateral relations with India. This includes the downgrading of our diplomatic relations,\u201d the foreign ministry said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The intention behind these measures is obviously to present an alarming picture to the world of our bilateral ties. The reasons cited by Pakistan are not supported by facts on the ground, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRecent decisions by the Government and Parliament of India are driven by a commitment to extend to Jammu and Kashmir opportunities for development that were earlier denied by a temporary provision in the Constitution. Its impact would also result in the removal of gender and socio-economic discrimination. It is also expected to result in an upswing of economic activity and improvement in the livelihood prospects of all people of Jammu and Kashmir,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The statement said, it is not surprising that such developmental initiatives that could address any disaffection in Jammu and Kashmir should be negatively perceived in Pakistan, which has utilized such sentiments to justify its cross-border terrorism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe recent developments pertaining to Article 370 are entirely the internal affair of India. The Constitution of India was, is and will always be a sovereign matter. Seeking to interfere in that jurisdiction by invoking an alarmist vision of the region will never succeed,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The statement further said, India regretted the steps announced by Pakistan yesterday and would urge that country to review them so that normal channels for diplomatic communications are preserved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Wednesday, Pakistan had expelled the Indian envoy in Islamabad and had announced downgrading its ties with India and suspending bilateral trade.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on Thursday asked Pakistan to review its decision\u00a0to downgrade diplomatic and trade ties after its decisions on Jammu and Kashmir. \u201cWe have seen reports that Pakistan has decided to take certain unilateral actions in respect to its bilateral relations with India. This includes the downgrading of our diplomatic relations,\u201d the foreign ministry said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":314521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[574,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314520"}],"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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314524,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314520\/revisions\/314524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}