Pakistan FM Shah Mahmood Qureshi boycotts Jaishankar's ...

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external Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.UNITED international locations: Pakistan overseas Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday boycotted external Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's opening remark at the meeting of the SAARC Council of foreign Ministers, asserting his country will not engage with India "unless and unless" it lifts the "siege" in Kashmir.

The meeting on the sidelines of the UN accepted assembly session here begun in his absence.

Qureshi "refuses to attend Indian Minister of external Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar's commentary at the assembly of SAARC Council of Ministers," Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf birthday celebration tweeted.

Pakistan will no longer have interaction with India "unless and unless they raise the siege" in Kashmir, it stated.

"They have to preserve human rights of Kashmiris, ensure they are blanketed and never violated or trampled upon," it brought.

Tensions between both countries have spiked considering that India abrogated Article 370 of the constitution to revoke the particular status of Jammu and Kashmir in August.

India's determination evoked strong reactions from Pakistan, which downgraded diplomatic ties and expelled the Indian ambassador.

Pakistan has been making an attempt to internationalise the Kashmir situation after India withdrew the special popularity of Jammu and Kashmir, however New Delhi has asserted the abrogation of Article 370 changed into its "inside count number".

The South Asian association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the regional grouping in Asia comprising India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

last yr, the then external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj left the room after her commentary at the SAARC Council of Ministers' assembly, amid tensions between the two international locations following the brutal killings of three policemen in Jammu and Kashmir and Islamabad releasing postage stamps "glorifying" a slain Kashmiri militant.

The 2016 SAARC Summit became to be held in Islamabad. but after a deadly terrorist attack on an Indian military camp in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir in September that year, India expressed its inability to participate in the summit as a result of "prevailing circumstances".

The summit become known as off after Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan additionally declined to participate within the Islamabad meet. Maldives and Sri Lanka are the seventh and eighth members of the initiative.

SAARC Summits are constantly held biennially hosted by means of a member state in alphabetical order. The final SAARC Summit in 2014 become held in Kathmandu.