What’s wrong with India and Pakistan!
The history of the Indo-Pak ties is chequered with breakups and new beginnings
The writer is former Dean Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Karachi and can be reached at [email protected]
When the UAE’s ambassador to Washington, in a virtual discussion with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on April 14, took the credit of “bringing Kashmir escalation down and creating a ceasefire”, it reflected a shift in India’s policy on mediation. While India is silent on the claim, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, at a press conference in Dubai on April 18, ruled out ‘backchannel negotiations’ with India. However, he did admit that intelligence level talks were held between the two countries on contentious issues.