NEW DELHI, April 28: India has expressed its reservations over a meeting in Brussels between European Commission officials and Azad Kashmir President Anwar Khan, news reports here said on Thursday. “We are surprised to hear that the delegation from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir was received in the European Commission yesterday,” Mr Amar Sinha, Minister at the Indian embassy in Brussels, was quoted by an Indian news agency as saying on Wednesday.

“This is not in consonance with the current development in our bilateral relations with Pakistan. We are ascertaining further details,” Mr Sinha said.

Mr Sinha’s comments followed a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday between the Director for Asia of the European Commission’s External Relations Directorate General, Fokion Fotiadis, and a Kashmir delegation led by President Anwar Khan.

Commission spokesperson for External Relations, Emma Udwin, said Mr Khan briefed Fotiadis on recent developments in Kashmir and on the ongoing India-Pakistan dialogue.

“The commission took note of this,” Ms Edwin said without making further comments.