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A few days after the cancellation of talks between the National Security Advisors (NSA) of India and Pakistan amid a full-throated slanging match, the chiefs of India’s Border Security Force …
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The cancellation of the NSA level talks between India and Pakistan has definitely been a setback for the overall bilateral relations between both countries. However, both sides are set to …
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It’s a depressingly predictable piece of theatre, and once again it’s the K word that has wrecked the planned talks between national security advisers of the perennially prickly neighbours, India and Pakistan. The much- touted talks between the NSAs of the two estranged neighbours were cancelled after an intense slanging match following Islamabad inviting the Kashmiri separatist leaders to meet Sartaz Aziz in New Delhi. The Modi government drew the red line when it cancelled the foreign secretary-level talks a year ago on grounds of the Pakistani envoy inviting separatist leaders for a meeting. This time round, New Delhi has reinforced the red line with an added conviction.
India’s Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj had issued an ultimatum to Pakistan to respond by the midnight of August 23 on continuing talks without Pakistan’s NSA meeting the separatists. By the late hours of August 22, Pakistan responded saying it cannot attend the meet as India was imposing pre- conditions and called off the meeting.
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Indian intelligence agencies have documentary evidence to prove that nearly 22 years after the Mumbai blasts took place, India’s most wanted terrorist and the underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim is …
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In what could be a major irritant to India, the Pakistan High Commission is said to have invited the separatist Kashmiri leaders to meet Pakistan’s National Security Advisor (NSA) Sartaj Aziz during his visit to India on August 23. Mr Aziz is scheduled to meet his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval for NSA talks.
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Intensifying cross-border firing, and the resulting mutual recriminations, has cast shadow over the forthcoming meeting between national security advisers of India and Pakistan. Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit …
Read MoreAhead of the talks between national security advisers of India and Pakistan, Islamabad’s envoy Abdul Basit has struck a discordant note, saying his country will continue to support the people …
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Ending weeks of speculation, Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Sartaz Aziz has said he will visit New Delhi for talks that will focus on addressing issues relating to terror that has …
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A week after the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan met on the sidelines of the SCO summit at Ufa, the relations between the two estranged nuclear-armed neighbours seem to …
Read MoreDays after the leaders of India and Pakistan held an ice-breaking meeting in Russia resulting in “actionable propositions” to improve strained ties, the two countries are getting back to the depressingly familiar pattern of blame game. Senior ministers in India met on July 16 to discuss ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops and an out-of-the-blue controversy arising out of Islamabad’s claim of having shot down an allegedly Indian spy drone.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, with NSA Ajit Doval, discussed the latest developments that could undermine the much-hyped breakthrough meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in the Russia city of Ufa on July 10.
Meanwhile, India has lodged a strong protest against Pakistan after its Rangers targeted five border outposts in Akhnoor sector and civilians in R.S. Pura and Tawi belts, in Jammu. This was the seventh ceasefire violation in July month alone.
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