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BSF, Rangers go sweet-less
BSF, Rangers Go Sweet Less. Pak summons Indian envoy over NIA’s decision not to challenge Samjhauta blast accused Aseemanand\'s bail. There was no exchange of sweets between the Border Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers at the international border here on the occasion of Pakistan\'s Independence Day on Friday. With tensions between India and Pakistan over recent terror attacks in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, officials of BSF and Pakistan Rangers didn\'t follow the tradition of offering sweets to one another.
Pak summons Indian envoy over NIA’s decision not to challenge Samjhauta blast accused Aseemanand's bail.
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Attari/New Delhi: There was no exchange of sweets between the Border Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers at the international border here on the occasion of Pakistan's Independence Day on Friday. With tensions between India and Pakistan over recent terror attacks in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, officials of BSF and Pakistan Rangers didn't follow the tradition of offering sweets to one another.
"No sweets were offered by either side," a BSF officer said here. Both sides, at a meeting of the border commandants this week, had decided not to exchange sweets. Pakistan's Independence Day falls on August 14 and India's a day later. The tradition of exchanging sweets on select occasions was broken on the occasion of Eid in October last year. Normally, Pakistan Rangers offer sweets on Pakistan's Independence Day and the BSF reciprocate on India's Independence Day.
However, on March 23 this year, the Pakistanis offered sweets to the BSF on the occasion of Pakistan Day. Meanwhile, Pakistan summoned Indian envoy and lodged protest over NIA’s decision to not challenge Samjhauta blast accused Aseemanand's bail.
Pakistan said it will to raise Samjhauta case during NSA level talks on August 23. The government's decision not to oppose bail for Aseemanand has cropped up ahead of the meeting planned next week between the National Security Advisors of both countries. The monk was arrested for allegedly masterminding 2007's deadly attack on the Samjhauta Express, a train headed to Pakistan, in which killed 68 people were killed. In February 2007, the Samjhauta Express, a bi-weekly train between Delhi and Lahore, was bombed just as it passed Panipat in Haryana. Of the nearly 70 people who were killed, most were Pakistanis. Swami Aseemanand, arrested in November, 2010, was charged with murder and sedition. He is also accused of organising two other terror attacks that year - blasts at Hyderabad's famous Mecca Masjid and at the Ajmer Dargah in Rajasthan.
