Guests arriving for a dinner at the luxury Serena Hotel in Islamabad faced "unprecedented harassment and intimidation" at the hands of Pakistani security agencies that even used a forklift truck to remove the cars of some attendees, according to the Indian High Commission in Islamabad. The Indian High Commission, asking Pakistan to investigate, said some of its officials and diplomats were "jostled, pushed, abused, aggressively threatened with bodily harm" and in some cases had their phones snatched by Pakistani security officials. "The disappointing chain of events on June 1 not only violate basic norms of diplomatic conduct but are against all notions of civilised behaviour," the Indian High Commission said in a statement. But India's allegations follow similar complaints by Pakistan about the way Indian security forces behaved outside Pakistan National Day celebrations at the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi in March. Modi decided not to invite Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan to last week's inauguration ceremony, in contrast to 2014, when the Indian leader had invited then-Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif to his first inauguration.

Source: bd News24 June 02, 2019 14:37 UTC