NEW DELHI: A bitter exchange between Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at the Connectivity Conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, underscored the difficulties of finding peace in that troubled country. Ghani warned that “10,000 jihadi fighters had come from Islamabad and other places to fight in Afghanistan last month.” He added that […]Read More
NEW DELHI: No more back channel talks with India, with that broadside, Pakistan’s national security adviser Moeed Yusuf appears to have dumped the gains from the recent thaw with India. Most notably, he has put into question the ceasefire on the Line of Control now a little over four months old. In this conversation on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan may continue to agitate about the ‘Kashmir issue’ but what is often overlooked is that key Pakistani figures have themselves disputed their claim on Kashmir. As former ambassador Dinkar P Srivastava points out in his recent book, Forgotten Kashmir: The Other Side of the Line of Control Islamabad’s uneasiness about Kashmir goes […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Despite statements from Qatari officials, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at a press conference has flat-out denied any back-channel talks are taking place. This comes a day after India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval proposed an action plan against Pakistan-based terrorist groups LeT and JeM at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting of […]Read More
New Delhi: Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan praised India, or more specifically Indian missions, for doing their job better than their Pakistani counterparts. In a virtual address to Pakistan’s envoys, the Pakistani PM recalled his own experience as an overseas Pakistani in the ‘80s and ‘90s and stated that the “attitude” of certain ambassadors was […]Read More
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