The 19th Saarc summit has been cancelled after India decided to boycott the summit set for November in Islamabad. After Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan joined the Indian boycott, Nepal has announced that the summit will now be postponed. Afghanistan’s boycott is hardly a surprise, both because of its close relationship with India and its ‘tendency’ to level similar allegations about Pakistani sponsorship of terrorism. Bhutan and Bangladesh put out vague statements noting that the ‘environment…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to take recourse to non-military measures against Pakistan to achieve his aims. The refusal to attend the SAARC summit along with Afghanistan and Bangladesh is a move towards isolating Pakistan. That Nepal, Sri Lanka and Maldives declined to join hands indicates that not all SAARC members are on the same page with India. The ongoing Pakistan-Russia military exercises further indicate the difficulties India is likely to face in isolating…
By Jon Boone in Islamabad and Michael Safi in Delhin Four south Asian countries are to boycott what was set to be a historic regional summit in Islamadad in November, dealing a humiliating blow to Pakistan and isolating it diplomatically. India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Bhutan all said they would pull out of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) meeting following a collapse in relations between Pakistan and India, the subcontinent’s nuclear-armed rivals. Statements…
Tensions between Pakistan and India are at a simmer after a deadly terrorist attack in Uri in the Indian-held Kashmir; 18 Indian soldiers died. New Delhi blamed this attack on Pakistan and started looking for ways and means to hurt Pakistan. One of the crucial matters that can cause serious repercussions for Islamabad is the suspension of water flowing from India to Pakistan. Reportedly, India is planning to “maximise” the amount of water it uses…
There are many bones of contention between Pakistan and India with the conflicts along the Line of Control being perhaps the most visible, but it is water that may yet be the spark that could ignite a serious conflict. Both India and Pakistan share a common need regarding water and it is a diminishing resource. Water may be diminishing but it is also a vital source of power generation for both countries and now India…
LAHORE – Neither India nor Pakistan can unilaterally abrogate the Indus Water Treaty, say a top official of the Indus Water Commission and leading experts. As India has entered into the dirty game of hurling threats to suspend the treaty signed 56 years back between President Ayub Khan and India Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru, Pakistani officials and experts are not paying any heed to the propaganda of New Delhi. Experts, talking to The Nation…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan still awaits settlement of Rs7.3 billion in cash as well as assets worth Rs5.2 billion, which India and Bangladesh owe only to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). The issue of recovery of cash and assets from India and Bangladesh came under discussion as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Wednesday discussed audit paras related to the Finance Division. The PAC meeting, chaired by the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Naveed Qamar, directed the…
ISLAMABAD: Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Wednesday said Islamabad is preparing a dossier containing evidence of India’s involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan. “The dossier will soon be dispatched to the world leaders,” he said in an interview a day after warning India of grave consequences if it annulled the decades-old water-sharing treaty. A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned “blood and water cannot flow together”, Pakistan had declared that if India…