<p> Amidst the ongoing hostilities with India, Pakistan will not send its representative to the Asian ministerial conference on disaster risk reduction to be held here early next month.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Pakistan has conveyed its inability to send its Minister for Disaster Risk Reduction for the Asian conference to be held on November 3-5, a senior Home Ministry official said.<br /><br />No reason for Pakistan's non participation in the event has been specified but the ongoing hostilities between India and Pakistan could be the prime reason for Islamabad's non- participation in the conference to be held in New Delhi.<br /><br />Bilateral relations between India and Pakistan has been strained after Islamabad openly eulogised Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani, who was killed in an encounter on July 8.<br /><br />India blamed Pakistan for the September 18 killing of 19 soldiers in Uri by four heavily armed terrorists, who had come from Pakistan occupied Kashmir.<br /><br />Following the Uri incident, Indian Army carried out surgical strikes on terror launch pads in PoK.<br /><br />There have been frequent firings by Indian and Pakistani forces towards each other's posts leading to casualties on both sides.<br /><br />Reflecting the current Indo-Pak tensions, a staffer of the Pakistan High Commission, described as the kingpin of a spy ring working for ISI, was detained by police for alleged possession of sensitive defence documents and was immediately declared persona non-grata today.</p>
<p> Amidst the ongoing hostilities with India, Pakistan will not send its representative to the Asian ministerial conference on disaster risk reduction to be held here early next month.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Pakistan has conveyed its inability to send its Minister for Disaster Risk Reduction for the Asian conference to be held on November 3-5, a senior Home Ministry official said.<br /><br />No reason for Pakistan's non participation in the event has been specified but the ongoing hostilities between India and Pakistan could be the prime reason for Islamabad's non- participation in the conference to be held in New Delhi.<br /><br />Bilateral relations between India and Pakistan has been strained after Islamabad openly eulogised Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani, who was killed in an encounter on July 8.<br /><br />India blamed Pakistan for the September 18 killing of 19 soldiers in Uri by four heavily armed terrorists, who had come from Pakistan occupied Kashmir.<br /><br />Following the Uri incident, Indian Army carried out surgical strikes on terror launch pads in PoK.<br /><br />There have been frequent firings by Indian and Pakistani forces towards each other's posts leading to casualties on both sides.<br /><br />Reflecting the current Indo-Pak tensions, a staffer of the Pakistan High Commission, described as the kingpin of a spy ring working for ISI, was detained by police for alleged possession of sensitive defence documents and was immediately declared persona non-grata today.</p>