An Indian TV journalist was on Monday forced to leave a press conference addressed by Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), reports India Today.
Namrata Brar, who reports for news channel NDTV from the US, was told by somebody during the briefing at New York’s Hotel Roosevelt, “Iss Indian ko nikaalo (remove this Indian).”
No Indian journalist was allowed to cover the briefing by the Pakistani administration in the backdrop of tension over the Uri attack last week in which 18 Indian soldiers were killed by Pakistan-based terrorists.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is also in New York for the UNGA meeting, also evaded a question on the Uri attack by another Indian journalist working for the news agency ANI.
India has decided to isolate Pakistan on the global stage, calling the country a sponsor of terror even as Sharif rakes up the Kashmir issue at the UN.
