India's High Commissioner to Pakistan called back

New Delhi, Feb 15 The Government of India (GoI) on Friday got back to its High Commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria for interviews in the wake of the dastardly terror assault on CRPF convoy which left no less than 40 troopers dead and several critically injured.

News agency ANI quoted sources as saying that Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria has been called to Delhi for counsels in the wake of Thursday's assault.

Bisaria will leave today around evening time for Delhi for the conferences with the administration ob Saturday, ANI revealed.

In any case, there has been no official seeing equivalent to yet.

Preceding that, the government summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood and lodged a strong protest over the Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF troopers in Jammu and Kashmir.

Sources in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Foreign Secretary Vijay Keshav Gokhale called Mahmood to the MEA at 2 PM and issued a "very strong demarche" in connection with the terror attack on Thursday that also left 38 troopers injured.

Gokhale conveyed that Pakistan must take immediate and verifiable action against the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), which asserted obligation following the assault, and that it should quickly stop any gatherings or people related with terrorism and operating from A pakistani area.

He also dismissed the announcement made by the Pakistan Foreign Ministry denying any association in the suicide assault, that has been known as the most exceedingly bad ever fear assault in Jammu and Kashmir since terrorism started there in 1989.

Prior, sending out a tough message to Pakistan, the government on Friday pulled back the 'most-favored country' status to Pakistan, a move which would empower India to build traditions obligation on merchandise originating from the neighbouring nation.

In a media briefing after the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the most-favored-country (MFN) status to Pakistan stands denied.

India allowed the MFN status to Pakistan path back in 1996, yet the neighbouring nation has not yet responded.

The MFN status was concurred under WTO's General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

Both India and Pakistan are signatories to this; and are members from the World Trade Organization (WTO), which implies they need to treat one another and the other WTO member nations as favored trading partners in terms of imposing customs duties on goods.

Meanwhile, coming down heavily on Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that those behind the Pulwama fear assault have submitted a "grave mix-up" and they will "rebuffed".

"If our neighbour, which is completely isolated in the world, supposes it can destabilize India through its strategies and schemes, at that point it is committing a major error," the Prime Minister said.

"I need to tell terrorist associations and their watchmen that they have completed a grave error. Those behind the assault will be rebuffed for their activities," PM Modi said here while hailing off the Delhi-Varanasi rapid Vande Bharat Express train.

Paying tributes to the CRPF work force who lost their lives in the Pulwama assault, he stated, "Our security forces have been given full opportunity (to carry out anti-terror operations). We have full faith in their bravery."

PM Modi also thanked the nations which have bolstered India and denounced this incident in the strongest of terms.

After the dastardly act, India demanded that the UN ban JeM and its chief Masood Azhar who wanders unreservedly in Pakistan.

In an announcement, India's External Affairs Ministry said all UN part nations should bolster a proposition for forbidding Azhar as an international terrorist.

The JeM, a Pakistan-based outfit, guaranteed obligation regarding the assault in which a suicide plane on Thursday slammed his SUV pressed with explosives into a Central Reserve Police Force transport that was a piece of an expansive caravan on the Jammu-Srinagar expressway around 3.15 PM, killing a few troopers and leaving the security establishment stunned.