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India is set to hold the three-day G20 working group meeting on tourism in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar beginning Monday. The critical summit is due to be held on May 22-24, despite neighbouring Pakistan and its "all-weather friend" trying to politicise the matter by racking up the issue of abrogation of Article 370 from the valley.

Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari who recently attended a meeting in Goa, visited PoK on Sunday and is likely to organise a so-called "protest rally in support of Kashmir". It is not possible for India to play an important role in the world by violating UN resolutions," Pakistani English Daily Dawn quoted him as saying after reaching PoK.

“At a time when India is holding a conference in Kashmir, I have been invited to deliver an address to the Assembly,” he added. This exhibits Pakistan's vexation.  Besides, Pakistan, China also protested against India's decision to hold a crucial G20 event in



Srinagar.

Stringent security arrangements are in place across the Kashmir Valley to ensure that the high-profile event passes off peacefully.

The route from Srinagar airport to Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) -- the venue of the meeting -- has been given a massive facelift with the G20 logo painted on walls and hoardings installed to welcome the delegates, they said.

The officials said the Gulmarg tourist resort in north Kashmir, where a meeting is also scheduled, has been beautified too. Authorities are taking no chances and have beefed up security across the valley in view of the G20 meeting.

Elite NSG and Marine Commandos are helping the police and the paramilitary forces to secure the venues of the event, the officials said. They said massive sanitisation and area domination exercises have been carried out in the areas around the venues, along the route and in vulnerable spots of the city.
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