ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday that its High Commissioner to India will return to New Delhi “after completion of consultations in Islamabad.”
According to an official handout, this was also communicated to the Acting Indian High Commissioner who was invited by Dr. Mohammad Faisal to the Foreign Office in Islamabad.
The move comes only a few days after India and Pakistan found themselves on the brink of war: New Delhi ordered an airstrike near Balakot in response to a February 14 suicide attack in Pulwama that killed more than 40 paramilitary troops, and Pakistan downed an Indian fighter jet on its side of Kashmir and captured its pilot who was later returned to his country as a “gesture of peace.”
While tensions are still brewing in the region, the Foreign Office also proclaimed that a Pakistani delegation “will visit New Delhi on 14 March 2019, followed by the return visit of the Indian delegation to Islamabad on 28 March 2019, to discuss the draft Agreement on Kartarpur Corridor.”
Other than that, Pakistan has also conveyed its commitment to India regarding “continued weekly contact at the Military Operations Directorates level.”
