New Delhi: Following the Pakistan’s move to deny visas for a nine-member cycling team from Mumbai, India said it favoured a free travel across South Asia and would work with other countries in this regard.
"We have said that we would like as free and open as possible a travel regime in South Asia," news agency PTI Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon was quoted as saying.
He added that, "It (free travel) does not exist yet...We will work with our partners in South Asia to do that. We will do whatever is possible.”
The nine cyclists, hailing from Panvel town in Raigad district, had set off on a 40-day expedition to Islamabad and covered 2,000 km to Amritsar, where they had been waiting for the past four days.
The group, on a peace mission, could not go beyond Attari due to the denial of visas.
However, they now hope to make it for the annual Pakistani chapter of Pakistan-India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) conference to be organised in Lahore in May.
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