Highlights 1 Pakistan won't attend global tobacco-control conference in India next week, govt source said. Pakistan will not attend a global tobacco-control conference in India next week, a government minister said on Friday, in the latest fallout of strained diplomatic ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours. India is hosting the biennial conference of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the only global treaty to deter tobacco consumption. ALSO READ | Tobacco industry, government face off ahead of WHO conference"It's a very important meeting on tobacco, but our visit doesn't appear feasible due to on-going tensions," Saira Afzal Tarar, Pakistan's State Minister of Health Sciences Regulation and Coordination, told Reuters. ALSO READ | Mumbai police cracks down on shops selling cigarettes, tobacco products near schools, colleges

Source: India Today November 04, 2016 09:38 UTC