India to boycott CPU meeting in Pakistan

The APHC in a statement issued after a meeting chaired by its Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, in Srinagar said that India and Pakistan needed to show political farsightedness to deal with the tense situation.

Formally, India will also ask Chaudhury to shift the venue for the summit to enable the Indian Speakers to attend, but officials conceded that such a change so close to the event was virtually impossible.

While the formal head of the CPA is the British monarch, it is the duty of the host country to issue invites for its annual meetings.

Indians look at a live mortar shell allegedly fired from the Pakistani side of the Indian Kashmir border in the village of Abdullian, about 35 kilometers from Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir, India, August 4, 2015.

The Speaker said Pakistan gave this reply when India took up the matter strongly with the CPA chairperson and secretary-general.

Such a decision comes amid tensions over two recent terror attacks in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.

India is represented in the CPA, through its 31 branches that constitute speakers and representatives from state assemblies.

Sure, we could get some psychological satisfaction in bombing the terror camps and sending the Pakistan high commissioner packing.

“Pakistan has refused to my participation in the conference saying the Speaker of J&K Legislative Assembly can’t be part of the conference as per UN resolutions”, Speaker Kavinder Gupta told the media earlier. A former national security adviser of the country, Mahmud Durrani, had stated in public that Ajmal Kasab, the surviving terrorist who was hanged in India, was a Pakistani national.

The CPA Secretariat talked to Pakistan Assembly Speaker who expressed “constraint” in inviting Jammu and Kashmir. India and Pakistan have fought two wars over their competing claims to Kashmir and each administers part of it.

An official with India’s border security force said the Pakistani fire also wounded four civilians.

“The notification signifies the continuing resolve and policy of Pakistan as a responsible nuclear state to advance the shared goals of non-proliferation”, he added.

“We reviewed this issue and felt this was wrong”, Mahajan said after a meeting today with the Speakers. Not extending an invitation to the Jammu and Kashmir CPA is “unacceptable” as the CPA unit of Jammu and Kashmir state is “very much a bonafide member of the CPA”.