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.
Saeed Naqvi | Recalling Iraq’s tragedy in 2003 & statesmanship of PM Vajpayee
Published : Apr 23, 2021, 12:00 am IST
Updated : Apr 23, 2021, 12:00 am IST
Worldview India’s journalists remember April 2003 for the kind of journalism Indians haven’t practised before or since
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April 2003 was the cruellest month for the people of Iraq, a month of reflection on Pakistan by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and a rare opportunity for Worldview India, a group of Indian journalists who helped lift the mist from the month’s historic events.
The Americans occupied Iraq by April 3. Vice-president Dick Cheney, the real author of the operation, was eager to declare victory on April 9. It had to be a spectacular media event. After all, Mr Cheney embedded 300-plus journalists with the US military.
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The lesson from the China-India military stand-off is “profound” and it should not be repeated, Beijing’s envoy to New Delhi Sun Weidong said, even as the two sides could not yet reach an agreement for the complete withdrawal of front-line troops from all the face-off points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
However, he argued that the boundary row was “not the whole story of China-India relations”.
China’s ambassador to India recently had a virtual discussion with eminent columnist Sudheendra Kulkarni, who had served as an aide to late and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and had accompanied him on his visit to the communist country in 2003.
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