Pakistan stated on Thursday that there were no backchannel conversations between Islamabad and New Delhi, news agency PTI reported.
“There is no such thing going on right now,” Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar told the Senate, the upper chamber of parliament.
She went on to say that backchannel diplomacy was preferable when it was result-oriented.
Separately, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch echoed Khar’s statements regarding no covert diplomatic encounters with India at the weekly media conference.
Speaking in the Senate, Khar went on to explain that while Pakistan has always taken steps to promote regional peace, “right now, the cross-border antagonism is of an unique type.” She stated that while Pakistan was occasionally requested at international forums to normalise relations with India, the world should look at the messages New Delhi was giving to Islamabad.
