Indian media reacts angrily to PM’s move

India Today said Islamabad’s decision was 'yet another attempt to meddle in India’s internal affairs'


APP August 28, 2016
PHOTO: AFP

ISLAMABAD: Premier Nawaz Sharif’s move evoked a strong and angry reaction from the Indian media, which called it “provocation, needling and meddling” in the country’s affairs.

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The Indian Express said the Pakistan government had needled India on Kashmir by nominating parliamentarians as special envoys to world capitals to highlight the problem.

In a news report, The Times of India said Pakistan has sent the special envoys even as “India continues to ramp up pressure on Islamabad over its incitement of violence and unrest in Kashmir”.

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Under the headline “Pakistan provokes India”, a visibly frustrated The First Post wrote “the move can be seen as provocation from Pakistan’s side, which has been in a constant tussle with the Indian political leadership over the Kashmir issue recently”.

India rules out talks on Pakistan’s terms

India Today said Islamabad’s decision was “yet another attempt to meddle in India’s internal affairs”.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 28th, 2016.

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