India’s foreign ministry in a formal letter to the Ashoka University (Sonenpat, Haryana) asks the organisers of the Asian Studies conference in Delhi to keep out Pakistani Scholars from the conference see the letters.
- The political clearance letter to Ashoka University from India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) dated 19 February 2018
- Pakistan scratched out by India’s MEA from the list of 57 countries from where particpants were to attend the Asian Studies Conference of July 2018