Pakistan Foreign Affairs Advisor lands in Amritsar for the Heart of Asia Conference on Saturday evening. “There is no meeting,” a senior official told The Hindu, when asked about the chance of a ‘pull-aside’ meeting between Mr. Modi and Mr. Aziz in Amritsar, indicating only a joint call-on was scheduled. Welcoming the ministerial dignitaries to the conference, Mr. Modi told Mr. Aziz and foreign ministers of Afghanistan, Iran, Kyrgyztan and Slovakia that it was the region’s “collective responsibility” to help Afghanistan. Speaking at the conference, Afghanistan’s deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai urged countries to adopt a “Heart of Asia Counter Terror Strategy”. Significantly, shortly after his arrival in Amritsar, Sartaj Aziz sent a bouquet of flowers to Ms. Swaraj’s residence in Delhi to wish her a speedy recovery.

Source: The Hindu December 03, 2016 15:10 UTC