A defiant Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit continued to meet Kashmiri separatist leaders on Tuesday amidst strong indications from India that Pakistan’s conduct had torpedoed any hopes for an early resumption of the peace dialogue or an upward swing in trade ties.

A day after India scrapped the foreign secretaries’ meet slated for August 25, the Pakistani envoy on Tuesday met Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani, head of the moderate faction Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and JKLF leader Yasin Malik at the Pakistan high commission.

Monday’s meeting between Mr Basit and another Kashmiri separatist leader, Shabir Shah, despite New Delhi asking him to desist from doing so, had provoked the Modi government to call off the August 25 talks. Though the Pakistani envoy’s decision to go ahead with Tuesday’s meetings remained an irritant to New Delhi, sources here noted that in real terms it mattered little as the talks had already been called off.


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