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| KAC fails to woo Washington-based Indian envoy | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, FEB 9 The much-publicised Kashmiri American Council (KAC) has failed to rope in the Indian ambassador to the United States, Ronen Sen, for an event marking the 'Kashmir Solidarity Day' and the India-Pakistan peace process. Even as the KAC as well as a Pakistani lobbying group in the United States sought to project the event as two in one, Sen chose to take a different route.
According to a report from Washington, Ronen Sen was invited by the KAC and the Pakistani lobbying group to the event. But the Indian ambassador declined the invitation.
The 'Kashmir Solidarity Day', which was instituted some years ago to express support for the "struggle of the Kashmiri people for the right of self-determination", is now celebrated not only in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) but outside as well, both by Pakistanis and Kashmiris.
Diplomatic sources say that Indian ambassador, Ronan Sen, cannot be faulted for his refusal to accept the invitation, as the clubbing of the "annual ritual that salutes the sacrifices made by the Kashmiri people to gain freedom from Indian rule" with the India-Pakistan composite dialogue came as a surprise to many in Washington, including some US officials.
Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, executive director of the Kashmiri-American Council, moderated the meeting, held on Capitol Hill. And it was he who announced that the Indian ambassador had been invited to attend, but had expressed his inability to do so.
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