With diplomacy having taken a back seat, India-Pakistan relations are in a free fall. The two sides had announced the resumption of Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue (CBD), which never took-off due to terror strikes in Pathankot and Uri. The South Asian regional summit scheduled for Islamabad was wrecked by India, though Pakistan’s Interior Minister too did his bit to mar the relations between the neighbours. The era of Sharif-Modi tweets seems to be over till at…
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Pakistan-India tensions are fast spiralling towards a low from which it would be very difficult to recover from. The expulsion of diplomats — who are one of the most important means of state level contact — is setting a dangerous precedent for both countries. It was India that initiated this phenomenon by expelling a Pakistani diplomatic staff member under the charge of being involved in “espionage activities,” in response to which Pakistan declared an Indian…
SIALKOT – Due to Indian shelling, 93 government schools in Sialkot border villages remained closed for the 14th consecutive day on Thursday. Thus, the district administration issued directives to the Education Department to make arrangements to shift the government schools located in border areas to safer places. The step had been taken to avert the further educational loss of the students of these government schools that are closed for the last two-weeks in Indian shelling-hit…
The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday said eight Indian ‘diplomats’ in Pakistan – allegedly members of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) – are suspected of involvement in terrorist and subversive activities. FO Spokesman Nafees Zakaria during a weekly press briefing in Islamabad said, “As you are aware, a number of Indian diplomats and staff belonging to Indian intelligence agencies RAW and IB have been found involved in coordinating terrorist…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday took a step forward to internationalise and reached out to foreign capitals regarding the activities of Indian state-sponsored subversive and terrorist activities inside Pakistan — having contacts with Taliban and aiming at sabotaging the China Pakistan Economic Corridor — which has led to nine Indian officials including diplomats at the Islamabad Mission found involved in promoting terrorist activities and terror financing. The government says it has pursued a policy of restraint, …
NEW DELHI / ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India may temporarily recall their high commissioners in the wake of the latest diplomatic debacle triggered after the cover of certain officials posted in each other’s capitals was revealed by the two sides through media leaks, officials said on Thursday. The fresh slide in ties, which have already been at their lowest point since the attack on an Indian military base in Occupied Kashmir in September, may also lead…