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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From Paris to Bangkok to Islamabad in 10 days!
Vikas Khanna The lightening speed with which India-Pakistan talks have traveled is amusing if not baffling. Can a less than three-minute conversation between prime ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the Paris climate summit change the atmospherics so much that the two countries would agree to composite dialogue within 10 days? How can a government, … [Read more...] about From Paris to Bangkok to Islamabad in 10 days!
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