The venue for Commonwealth Parliamentary Union meeting was on 20 August, 2015 shifted to New York after Pakistan announced that it would not host the meet due to tensions with India as the latter was adamant on sending the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker Kavinder Gupta. Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq announced that Islamabad pulled out as the host for the 61st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) as India insisted on the participation of J&K Assembly speaker. Earlier, India had threatened to boycott the nine-day CPC that was to be held in Islamabad from 30 September after Pakistan refused to ....
