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Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently capitalised on remarks made by veteran politician and former diplomat Mani Shankar Aiyar, aiming to portray the Congress as consistently adopting a hesitant, if not timid, stance on Pakistan.
Citing attacks on the Pathankot Airbase, Uri Army camp and Pulwama as Pakistan’s acts of cross-border terror, the govt said, “India has repeatedly called upon Pak to bring the perpetrators of Mumbai attacks to justice, but there has been no progress.”
Management of Pakistan-India tensions is likely to remain the main focus of sporadic backchannel efforts.
Opinion March 2, 2021 A renewal of the 2003 ceasefire at the Line of Control (LOC) between Pakistan and India is unequivocally good news. Neither country’s strategic or tactical goals are served by the constant violence along the LOC, but dozens of families and hundreds of individuals are in the line of fire every time there is an escalation in exchanges between the respective armed forces of the two countries. Given that there is still a relatively heavy civilian population on the Azad Jammu and Kashmir side, there is all the more reason for Pakistan to be proactive in seeking an end to t...