Pakistan's Sindh Club refuses to host Indian envoy
Event was being organised by a group called Pakistan-India Citizens’ Friendship Forum
Karachi: In a development likely to further hit Indo-Pak relations, the elite Sindh Club in Karachi refused to host Indian high commissioner to Pakistan T.C.A Raghavan and his wife for a function on September 26.
Sources in Karachi said the club, one of Karachi’s oldest institutions, said no to hosting Raghavan without giving any reason and even after Raghavan had arrived in Karachi to attend the event.
The event was being organised by a group called Pakistan-India Citizens’ Friendship Forum. Liaquat Merchant, the grandson of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, is a co-chairman of the group. The organisers had invited Raghavan for an event related to India. Merchant was expected to make a speech at the event, oneindia said.
Sources here said the high commissioner and all other guests had received invitation cards saying Sindh Club, which has existed since 1871, was going to host the event. Raghavan got a shock though after he checked into his hotel with officials informing him that Sindh Club had decided that it was not going to host him.