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New Delhi, Sep 21: The Pakistan government has defended its decision to deny a visa to Jayant Khobragade, who New Delhi wanted to appoint as the acting envoy to Islamabad.
Pakistan said that New Delhi is trying to circumvent the effect of downgrading diplomatic relations between the two nations by proposing to appoint a senior diplomat, who had already served as New Delhi’s ambassador to another country, as the a ting head of the High Commission of India in Islamabad.
Khobragade who had joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1995 had served as a counsellor in the High Commission of India in…