ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is “not too happy” with the way India handled his visit to New Delhi to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister, a media report claimed on Friday quoting an unnamed leader of the ruling PML(N) party.
A senior PML(N) member told Dawn News that Sharif felt belittled when there was no joint press conference after the one-on-one meeting between the two prime ministers.
Short of that, Prime Minister Sharif’s delegation was expecting a joint communique, but none was issued and instead New Delhi unilaterally released a press statement which did not carry Islamabad’s stance, the report said.
“Sharif is not too happy at his reception in India during his visit there to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Narendra Modi,” the report said.
Bomb blasts kill 2 soldiers
ISLAMABAD: Two soldiers were killed yesterday in separate bomb blasts in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, the military said.
The explosions took place in Bajaur tribal district, one of the seven semi-autonomous tribal regions, where troops have been battling Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked militants.
“Two soldiers embraced martyrdom in Bajur today in two different improvised explosive device blasts planted by terrorists along road side in Bara Kamangara area and near a Pakistani post on Pak-Afghan border respectively,” the military said in a statement.
Nobody has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks but roadside bombs are often used by the Pakistani Taliban, who launched their insurgency in 2007.
More than 4,000 Pakistani police, paramilitaries and troops have lost their lives to Islamist militants since 2002.
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