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Stalemate continues
December 24, 2020
With the ‘India Chronicles’ and revelations by Foreign Minister Qureshi that New Delhi could be planning a surgical strike, India-Pakistan tensions are back in the headlines. Will the incoming Biden administration take notice?
Not an easy question to answer, as the future of the relations is largely in the hands of Indian Prime Minister Modi for whom his Pakistan policy is serving interests that go well beyond Washington’s policies and influence.
Modi’s plan regarding relations with Pakistan is clearly part of a new paradigm of India’s domestic and foreign policies. His foreign policy has fortified the trend that began around 1991 – to enhance engagement with great powers, especially the United States, to help raise India’s economic weight, military potential, and diplomatic stature, and advance its hegemony in the region. But the Pakistan policy does not reflect the foreign policy alone. It responds equally to several domestic factors – the RSS-backed Hindutva ideology, electoral politics, and Kashmir.