There is ‘no point’ of Mohamed Nasheed being at the Indian High Commission, said a senior Maldives minister who assured that ‘everything is under control’ in his country.
‘There is no point of his being there,’ Maldives Tourism Minister Ahmed Adheeb Abdhul Gafoor told IANS over phone from Male after the former president took refuge at the Indian mission here Tuesday as a court issued an arrest order for his failing to attend a hearing in the allegedly illegal detention of a judge.
Gafoor said that Nasheed ‘is there’ at the Indian High Commission. He added that there would be ‘no effort to take him out.
‘Anyone can visit the Indian High Commission,’ he said and suggested that the Indian media may be indulging in unnecessary speculation over the turn of events in his country.
He said the situation in his island country was ‘calm and stable’ and very much ‘under control’.
‘Yeah, I think,’ said the senior minister when asked whether Male was in touch with New Delhi over this development.
‘There is no point of his being there,’ Maldives Tourism Minister Ahmed Adheeb Abdhul Gafoor told IANS over phone from Male after the former president took refuge at the Indian mission here Tuesday as a court issued an arrest order for his failing to attend a hearing in the allegedly illegal detention of a judge.
Gafoor said that Nasheed ‘is there’ at the Indian High Commission. He added that there would be ‘no effort to take him out.
‘Anyone can visit the Indian High Commission,’ he said and suggested that the Indian media may be indulging in unnecessary speculation over the turn of events in his country.
He said the situation in his island country was ‘calm and stable’ and very much ‘under control’.
‘Yeah, I think,’ said the senior minister when asked whether Male was in touch with New Delhi over this development.