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The duplicity of the Imran Khan government in Pakistan is once again in the spotlight, with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehommod Qureshi riling India by holding a telephonic discussion with …
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India has termed as “illegal and completely unacceptable” reports emanating from Pakistan that Islamabad is trying to declare Gilgit-Baltistan, also known as the Northern Areas, as Pakistan’s fifth province. In …
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Amid clouds of uncertainty over the course of the dialogue process between India and Pakistan after the January Pathankot terror attacks, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has sought to internationalize …
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Raking up the Kashmir issue once again in the mist of rising tensions over alleged involvement of Pakistan-based elements in the Pathankot terror attack in India, Pakistan’s President Mamnoon Hussain has said that his country will continue to support the Kashmiris and their right to self-determination.
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What are we to make of India-Pakistan relations? On one side of the ledger we have the elevating story of how Geeta, an abandoned deaf-and-mute girl who had strayed into …
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In an already existing hostile atmosphere in South Asia, Pakistan’s civil and military leadership has added to the hostility in South Asia by deciding not to have any talks with India unless the Kashmir issue is put on the agenda.
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In a strong rebuttal of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s anti-India speech raking up LoC violations and Kashmir issue, at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), India asserted that Islamabad is a victim of its own policies of breeding and sponsoring terrorism.
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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.
Read MoreIn a blazing war of words between the two estranged subcontinental neighbours, Pakistan’s Army Chief General Raheel Sharif has said that Kashmir is an inseparable part of his country, and …
Read MoreAlluding to India’s plan to resettle thousands of Hindus in separate townships in the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir as unacceptable, Pakistan has said that the new plan laid out by …
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