India refuses to hand over Jinnah House to Pakistan
Pakistan Times Foreign Desk

NEW DELHI (India): As per traditions of going back on its words, India has ruled out handing over the historical Jinnah House in Mumbai to Pakistan.

Minister of State for External Affairs Inderjit Singh told Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian parliament, that the Indian government had not made any pledges in this regard.

Pakistan wants to build its consulate office in Jinnah House.

Recap

Both India and Pakistan had agreed to set up consulate offices in Karachi and Mumbai as part of confidence building measures between them.

However, no progress has been cited since.

Singh said that India had objected to the appointment of Britain's honorary consul at Mirpur in Azad Kashmir, [Choudhry Muhammad Saeed]—what Singh deceitfully, illicitly, illogically and superciliously—phrased as “on the grounds that it was Indian territory under Pakistan's illegal occupation.”

With a typical style of Indian rhetoric, backed by arrogance vis-à-vis the ground realities and pragmatism, he came out with naughty and wicked view that; “the Indian government had conveyed its ‘objection’ to the British High Commission in New Delhi and—what he pretended, that the High Commission had clarified that the honorary consul would only give advisory services to the Mirpur community in the United Kingdom and that the move would not affect political issues.”●