Vikas Khanna It was not a surprise stopover when Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Lahore from Afghanistan to meet and greet his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on his 66th birthday. It was the visit shrouded in secrecy. Since the PMO has taken over reigns of foreign affairs with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval at the helm, diplomacy has acquired a new meaning. … [Read more...] about Dormant India-Pakistan ties need a jolt
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Pakistan should restructure relationship with non-Muslim citizens
Jasmine Brar The Hindu community in Pakistan has dwindled from 15 percent at the time of partition to less than two percent (1.6%) now. Pakistan has a mere two million, Hindus even as India has a Muslim population larger than that in Pakistan itself. The decline came by due to engineered pogroms of persecution that included forcible killings, conversions, kidnapping of Hindu … [Read more...] about Pakistan should restructure relationship with non-Muslim citizens
Why Sharif agrees to disagree with President Barack Obama?
Vikas Khanna Hours after committing in a joint statement with President Barack Obama to take effective action all militant groups, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made a U-turn by telling a think tank that he could not be expected to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table "and be asked to kill them at the same time." This was the real Sharif who spoke from his … [Read more...] about Why Sharif agrees to disagree with President Barack Obama?
Pakistan will not get Kashmir by engineered Hartals and Bandhs
Dr. Simrit Kahlon The state of Jammu and Kashmir continues to face disruption in the form of lockouts and Hartals (Strikes) in the Kashmir valley. For a casual observer the situation looks like a spontaneous reaction to some reason for dissatisfaction; a deeper analysis, however, leads to a conclusion that the seemingly isolated incidents are a part of an intricate and … [Read more...] about Pakistan will not get Kashmir by engineered Hartals and Bandhs
Pakistan should end militarisation of POJK
Mehtab Karan Singh Pakistan would rate as one of the most militarised regions in the world. The country is involved in a civil war like situation in its western frontiers comprising of North and South Waziristan; it is in forcible occupation, through military might, of a large portion of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir; there is the full blown insurgency in Balochistan. … [Read more...] about Pakistan should end militarisation of POJK