{"id":314549,"date":"2019-08-09T12:03:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T12:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314549"},"modified":"2019-08-09T12:03:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T12:03:13","slug":"after-samjhauta-pakistan-suspends-thar-express-over-indias-kashmir-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/after-samjhauta-pakistan-suspends-thar-express-over-indias-kashmir-move\/","title":{"rendered":"After Samjhauta,\u00a0Pakistan suspends Thar Express over India&#8217;s Kashmir move"},"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-314550 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/thar-express.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"737\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/thar-express.jpg 737w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/thar-express-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/thar-express-696x501.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/thar-express-584x420.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/>Pakistan on Friday said that it will suspend the Thar Express, its last train service to India, over revocation of Article 370 by New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came a day after It had halted the Samjhauta Express\u2019 service between Lahore and Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have decided to shut down the Thar Express as well,\u201d Pakistan\u2019s railways minister Sheikh Rashid told reporters, in reference to the weekly service running between the towns of Khokrapar in Pakistan and Monabao in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;As long as I am railways minister, no train will operate between Pakistan and India,\u201d Rashid said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar on Friday described Pakistan\u2019s action as \u201cunilateral\u201d\u2009and said India has urged it to reconsider its decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis has been done without consulting us. We have urged them to reconsider their decision. Our sense is that whatever is being done by Pakistan is to present an alarming picture of bilateral relationship,\u201d Kumar said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is time for Pakistan to accept reality and stop interfering in internal affairs of other countries,\u201d Kumar added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Apart from suspending the Samjhauta Express, Pakistan had banned the screening of Indian films in its territory yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan on Thursday announced to downgrade ties with India and suspended bilateral ties in response to the centre&#8217;s move to end special status for Jammu and Kashmir and split it into two union territories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India asked Pakistan to review its decision\u00a0to downgrade diplomatic and trade ties, claiming that the intention behind Pakistan\u2019s actions was obviously to present an alarming picture to the world of our bilateral ties.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan on Friday said that it will suspend the Thar Express, its last train service to India, over revocation of Article 370 by New Delhi. This came a day after It had halted the Samjhauta Express\u2019 service between Lahore and Delhi. \u201cWe have decided to shut down the Thar Express as well,\u201d Pakistan\u2019s railways minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[574,424,48,11727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314549"}],"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=314549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314551,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314549\/revisions\/314551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}