Guests invited to Indian High Commission\u2019s Iftar party in Islamabad on Saturday evening faced \u201cunprecedented level of harassment\u201d due to enhanced security checks by Pakistani officials who stopped some invitees on one pretext or other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy invitation card was checked and I was asked questions about profession and residence, and allowed to go in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also said that there were reports that some invitees were called by anonymous callers and told not to attend the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indian High Commissioner Ajay Bisaria hosted the annual event at Serena Hotel for which guests were invited from all over Pakistan.Those attending the event said that additional security deployment was made around the luxury hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A journalist said that he saw more than usual security presence but those having invitation cards and identity documents were allowed to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senior Pakistan People\u2019s Party leader Farhatullah Babar said that every gaze deflected towards odd visitors in hotel\u2019s lobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCame to Serena for iftar hosted by Indian HC. Hotel seems barricaded. Told that iftar cancelled. When insisted, I was told to use other gate. Other gate also closed and told to go back to front gate again. What\u2019s going on, something fishy,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Babar said that he somehow managed to attend the Indian mission\u2019s Iftar despite efforts by the local authorities to stop invitees on one pretext or other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
High Commissioner Bisaria in his brief address to the audience said that some of the guests could not make to the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India has not been engaging with Pakistan following the attack on the Air Force base at Pathankot in January of 2016, maintaining that talks and terror cannot go together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tensions flared up between the two sides after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammed killed 40 CRPF personnel in Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama district on February 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI want to apologise because some of you faced a lot of trouble to come here and some of our friends could not come,\u201d he said.Bisaria also said that people had come from Lahore and Karachi to attend the event and thanked them for coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amid mounting outrage, the Indian Air Force carried out a counter-terror operation, hitting the biggest JeM training camp in Balakot, deep inside Pakistan on February 26. The next day, Pakistan Air Force retaliated and downed a MiG-21 in an aerial combat and captured an IAF pilot, who was handed over to India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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