Pak not to attend Asian ministerial conference on disaster

\ New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI) Amidst the ongoing hostilities\with India, Pakistan will not send it representative to the\Asian ministerial conference on disaster risk reduction to be\held here early next month.\ Pakistan has conveyed its inability to send its Minister\for Disaster Risk Reduction for the Asian conference to be\held on November 3-5, a senior Home Ministry official said.\ No reason for Pakistan\\’s non participation in the event\has been specified but the ongoing hostilities between India\and Pakistan could be the prime reason for Islamabad\\’s non-\participation in the conference to be held in New Delhi.\ Bilateral relations between India and Pakistan has been\strained after Islamabad openly eulogised Hizbul Mujahideen\militant Burhan Wani, who was killed in an encounter on July\8.\ India blamed Pakistan for the September 18 killing of 19\soldiers in Uri by four heavily armed terrorists, who had come\from Pakistan occupied Kashmir.\ Following the Uri incident, Indian Army carried out\surgical strikes on terror launch pads in PoK.\ There have been frequent firings by Indian and Pakistani\forces towards each other\\’s posts leading to casualties on\both sides.\ Reflecting the current Indo-Pak tensions, a staffer of\the Pakistan High Commission, described as the kingpin of a\spy ring working for ISI, was detained by police for alleged\possession of sensitive defence documents and was immediately\declared persona non-grata today. PTI ACB\RG\