Press Club postpones Pakistani food festival

NEW DELHI: The rising temperature in Indo-Pak relations over last week's serial terror attacks in Kashmir had an unlikely fall out in the Capital. A Pakistan food and music festival, scheduled to be held at the Press Club of India on Wednesday, was postponed allegedly due to objections raised by some office-bearers.
"Some members protested that holding a festival at this juncture would be both inappropriate and insensitive.We decided to postpone the event because we didn't want the group to take advantage of the situation and cause trouble for us," a senior office-bearer, who didn't want to be named told TOI over phone.
On Monday, the PCI issued an email saying that the Dec 10 event was being postponed.
Chefs from the famous Monal restaurant in Islamabad had been invited for the occasion. The menu included Peshawari chapli kebab and Kabuli pulao.
Karachi-based famous Sufi singers Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad, who incidentally belong to a Delhi qawwali gharana, were also scheduled to perform on the occasion.