Indian Media not allowed Press briefing in New York
New York sources have added that Indian media was not allowed to attend a press briefing addressed by Pakistan Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry in New York, and an Indian journalist of NDTV news channel was asked to leave the room for an apparent outcome of the simmering bilateral relations.
NDTV reported that “Iss Indian ko nikalo (remove this Indian),” were the words directed at Namrata Brar, a journalist with NDTV, and she was asked to leave the room at the Roosevelt Hotel on Monday, where the Pakistan Foreign Secretary was to address the media on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
The news channel has reported that no Indian was allowed to attend the briefing and the Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif also avoided Indian journalists during his trip to New York to attend the UN meet and the incident also comes after Sunday’s terror attack on the Uri army base camp in Jammu and Kashmir which claimed the lives of 18 soldiers.
Meanwhile bilateral tensions between the two countries has escalated over the Kashmir issue, especially with Pakistan seen to openly back the separatist-fuelled unrest in the valley and raising the issue of alleged human rights violations at the international fora.