Second Foreign Delegation To Visit Jammu And Kashmir This Week ndtv.com

A fresh group of foreign diplomats will go on a two-day visit Jammu and Kashmir this week to see first-hand the ground situation in the new union territory. This would be the second time a foreign delegation will visit Jammu and Kashmir since the Centre scrapped the special status of the state granted under Article 370 of the Constitution in August and bifurcated it into two union territories. "The government has decided to take around 16 India-based diplomats to Jammu and Kashmir for a two-day visit," a senior official told NDTV. The envoys are from the Organisation of Islamic Corporation, ASEAN, European Union and Latin America. The ministry has asked the respective countries to pick the visiting diplomat. So far, the plan is to take the diplomats to Srinagar on January 9, where the Army would brief them on the ground situation in the Kashmir Valley. The next day, they would be taken to Jammu to meet some prominent people. The final plan is yet to be worked out.