No plan to stop people-to-people contact: Indian govt on India-Pakistan ties
Bernama
October 19, 2016 11:24 MYT
October 19, 2016 11:24 MYT
India's Congress Party workers hold candles as they pay tribute next to the Gateway of India in Mumbai on Sept 19, 2016 to the 17 Indian soldiers killed in a militant attack at the Uri army base in Kashmir. / AFP PHOTO / File
With various film bodies imposing a ban on Pakistan actors after the Uri attack, the government on Tuesday said people-to-people contact would continue and there was no plan to stop it, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reports.
This was conveyed by Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs during discussions on India-Pakistan relations with a specific reference to surgical strikes across the LoC on Sept 29.
"People-to-people contact would continue and there was no plan to stop it," he told the panel.
In the aftermath of the Uri terror attack last month in which 19 Indian jawans were killed, the MNS issued an ultimatum to Pakistani artistes to leave India.
They also threatened to stop the screening of films featuring artistes from Pakistan. -- BERNAMA