Following Army’s surgical strike across Line of Control (LoC), the 19 young women students attending the five-day Global Peace Fest have been receiving calls from their parents in Pakistan asking them to return. The girls were supposed to travel to Shimla on Friday and return to Pakistan on Monday. The girls also interacted with students of a school and gave them Indo-Pak friendship cards. A senior Chandigarh police official said adequate security measures had been taken since their arrival on Tuesday night. Abdul Basit cancels Chandigarh visitPakistan high commissioner to India Abdul Basit has cancelled his tour to Chandigarh on Saturday, where he was scheduled to address students from India and Pakistan as part of a peace event.

Source: Hindustan Times September 29, 2016 14:11 UTC