India set to boycott Commonwealth meet in Pakistan

 India is likely to back out from a Commonwealth Parliamentary Union (CPU) event to be held in Islamabad next month, in protest against Pakistan not inviting the speaker of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has reported.
“A meeting of speakers of all states here today unanimously decided that India will boycott the meeting of the CPU if the speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly is not invited,” the news agency quoted Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan as saying after the meeting.
The decision of the speakers comes against the backdrop of simmering tensions between the two border states over the recent terror attacks in Gurdaspur in Punjab and near Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir.
Mahajan said this was against a rule in the CPU in which all the speakers, who are members of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), have to be extended an invitation to the CPU meeting.