Palestine has strongly denied reports that its ambassador to Pakistan Walid Abu Ali, who was recalled after he was seen sharing the stage with Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, has been reinstated. “The former ambassador to Pakistan is in Palestine and our position was declared by our official statement issued last week. We don’t want Palestine to be used as an issue between India and Pakistan,” a Palestinian official told HT. Barely hours after the Indian statement, a Palestinian official had told Hindustan Times: “The ambassador has been recalled from Pakistan and asked to report to Ramallah. This shouldn’t have happened.”The Palestinian ambassador to India, Adnan Abu Al Haij, was quoted as saying that his government supported India “in its fight against terrorism” and had decided to call back its Pakistan envoy.

Source: Hindustan Times January 07, 2018 14:37 UTC