New Delhi: In a fresh rebuff to Pakistan, the government has asked Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) youth wing not to invite Islamabad to an international youth conference on terrorism beginning here on February 10, which aims to focus on exposing the neighbouring country's "double standards" on the issue.

"We were told by the External Affairs Ministry not to invite Pakistan and North Korea for the conference, in which over 200 delegates from about 50 countries including the US and several Islamic countries are participating," G Kishan Reddy, president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the organisers of the two-day meet, said.

New Delhi is also unhappy with Pyongyang over its clandestine nuclear and missile technology relationship with Islamabad.

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee would be inaugurating the meeting, whose valedictory session would be addressed by Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani. External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha and several other Union Ministers would be present on both days of the convention, to be attended among others by Youth Affairs Ministers and delegates from friendly parties of several countries.

"Our emphasis would be on exposing Pakistan before the youth of the world through books, compact discs, cultural programmes and multi-media presentations, so that they can build pressure on their respective governments against Islamabad's double standards on the issue of terrorism," Reddy said.

PTI