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Renewed Ceasefire
Surprising the strategic affairs community with its quiet diplomacy, rival armies of India and Pakistan announced a fresh ceasefire. The development was welcomed by everybody from the border villages to the UN and the White House. The initiative will require frequent monitoring and quick follow-ups, reports
Tasavur Mushtaq
Imran Khan and Narendra Modi
The Thursday (February 25, 2021) newsbreak about rival armies of India and Pakistan agreeing to a ceasefire came as a sweet surprise. Nobody expected it. In certain areas like Uri that usually pay for the hostilities, primarily, the populations were excited. Of all the people impacted by the bilateral decision-making of the nuclear-armed neighbours, areas straddling the now-visible Line of Control (LoC) usually pay the price with their blood.
LoC ceasefire shall follow improved situation in IIOJ&K
Islamabad
February 28, 2021
Islamabad: The defence experts speaking at a webinar termed the Indian willingness to restore the ceasefire agreement on the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan is merely an eyewash.
Though the experts welcomed the Indian aspiration for peace on the LoC, they termed the move ‘getting a breathing space for their strategic gain’ and to divert the world’s attention from the actual situation in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
They said the agreement was inked in 2003 that was revoked by the Indian government unilaterally in 2014 to intensify atrocities in IIOJK. Pakistan shall ask India to do more in real terms to improve the peace and human rights situation in the IIOJK, and to stop unwarranted propaganda against Pakistan on the global forums.
A joint statement issued by the two armies said the move followed a discussion between India’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO), Lt Gen Paramjit Singh Sangha, and his Pakistani counterpart, Maj Gen Nauman Zakaria, over their established telephone hotline.