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I first met Pervez Musharraf, then a Brigadier, in the summer of 1990 at the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), London, where I had done the same course in 1984 along with Brig Moinuddin Haider, who later became Musharraf’s mentor and interior minister. Lt Gen Haider, six years his senio

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India and Pakistan have enormous social capital and the economic potential to develop themselves and make their mark in South Asia and the world. Yet their perpetual conflict over Kashmir, which has led to many wars, continues to keep them and the region mired in poverty and calamity. In 1998, this conflict assumed a nuclear dimension. A decade later, the two countries stopped

Ex-minister says a US team asked him about army’s reaction if India carried out air strike on Muridke.—Reuters/File NEW DELHI: Indian movie idol and recipient of Pakistan’s highest civilian award Dilip Kumar had intervened with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to help defuse the 1999 Kargil crisis, former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri said on Tuesday. Kasuri quoted an aide of Sharif as confiding with him that in the middle of a conversation in July 1999 between the Pakistan prime m...

THE question of Kashmir is once again upon us. It all started with a detailed briefing by a senior official two weeks back in which he confirmed and then elaborated upon the process of backchannel talks taking place between Pakistan and India. As reported in this newspaper on April 25, the official argued that it was time for Pakistan to take a ‘strategic pause’ and review prospects of peace in the region. This, he said, was essential if Pakistan wanted to focus on fixing its domestic probl...

Through a backchannel, steps forward Updated: Updated: April 12, 2021 01:10 IST There are several indications of a backchannel being in place between India and Pakistan since 2020 Share Article AAA There are several indications of a backchannel being in place between India and Pakistan since 2020 The absence of evidence, they say, is not the evidence of absence. More than a month after India-Pakistan border commanders agreed to strictly observe all agreements between the two countries, the abse...