Shrouded in mystery
The writer served as executive editor of The Express Tribune from 2009 to 2014
It is still a mystery. The events that led Pakistan and India to recommit on February 25, 2021 to the 2003 ceasefire arrangement at the Line of Control (LoC) continue to remain shrouded in opacity. More so, because none of the two has publicly withdrawn her precondition for resumption of bilateral talks. Pakistan had said it didn’t want to talk unless India revoked its August 5, 2019 decision with regard to Indian-occupied Kashmir (IOK). And India had declared that it didn’t want to talk unless Pakistan stopped sending terrorists across the LoC.