India will not invite Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to Thursday's swea...
NEW DELHI - India will not invite Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to Thursday’s swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi, who starts his second term as India’s prime minister, two sources in the foreign ministry said, suggesting any early warming in ties between the nuclear-armed neighbors is unlikely.
Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan have fought three wars since both won independence from Britain in 1947, and came close to a fourth in February after a suicide attack by a Pakistan-based militant group killed at least 40 Indian police in the contested Kashmir region. “This is in line with Government’s focus on its ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy,” a government spokesman said.
For the swearing-in ceremony for Modi’s first term in 2014, all nations from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation , that includes Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Maldives, were invited.
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