Watch: Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit gets into a row with security person in Amritsar

During his visit to India to attend the Heart of Asia conference in Amritsar on Saturday evening, Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit got into a row with a member of security personnel at the Radisson Blue hotel, the venue of the conference. After security denied permission for Aziz’s interaction with the Pakistani media at the conference venue, Basit got into an argument which was caught on video by a news channel.

Later, the Pakistani High Commission planned the interaction at another hotel but that too was not allowed, the Pakistani High Commission sources said. Subsequently, Basit spoke to the Pakistani media. Earlier that same day, Pakistan claimed that its Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Advisor was not allowed to visit the Golden Temple and speak to Pakistani media persons at the hotel where he was staying, even as India said it was done due to security considerations. Sources in the Pakistani High Commission said Aziz had planned to visit the Golden Temple but was not allowed citing security concerns. With inputs from PTI