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February 28, 2021 10:13 IST
It may not be the result of a “package deal to stabilise relations with China”, they say.
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BSF personnel patrol on the Chenab along the International border in Jammu’s Akhnoor sector on February 25, 2021.
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It may not be the result of a “package deal to stabilise relations with China”, they say.
The decision of India and Pakistan’s Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) was unlikely to have been purely local, say experts, pointing to the language of the joint statement while declaring an observance of the 2003 ceasefire from the midnight of February 24/25, which has the “imprimatur” of high-level approval on it, though there is little clarity on the nature of the back-channel operating between the two countries two days after the announcement.