New Delhi : The National Book Foundation of Pakistan has pulled out of the 19th New Delhi World Book Fair, a few days after the country's chief election commissioner and a parliamentary delegation cancelled their visits to India to protest the snubbing of Pakistani cricketers at the IPL auction.

"There is a slight disappointment as the National Book Foundation of Pakistan pulled out of the fair yesterday. However, there are other private publishers from Pakistan who are still part of the fair," said Nuzhat Hassan, director of the National Book Trust (NBT), which is organising the fair.

She, however, did not specify any particular reason for the pull out. A total of 1,200 Indian and foreign publishers are participating in the fair, being held on Jan 30-Feb 7 in the Capital.