NSA Ajit Doval and Pakistan’s Sartaj Aziz in Amritsar. PTI
Simran Sodhi
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, December 4
India and Pakistan were today engaged in another war of words. Pakistan alleged that Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan's de facto foreign minister, and Abdul Basit, Pakistan's High Commissioner to India, were denied permission to visit the Golden Temple.
Sources in the government said the permission was denied keeping in mind that Sunday was Guru Teg Bahadur's martyrdom day and inconvenience would have been caused to the devotees visiting the shrine. They also said that VVIPs' visit to the Golden Temple had been facilitated on Saturday. But today security would have been a big problem. Pakistan also alleged that Aziz and Basit were not allowed to interact with the visiting Pakistani mediapersons and that some of them were treated badly by the Indian security personnel.
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