It’s encouraging that India and Pakistan continue to talk. But while they engage, they’d have to be careful about each other’s sensitivities on issues influencing popular support for peace between the two sub-continental rivals. Read more
I aren’t the least surprised that the Prime Minister’s Office has contradicted reports of there being any contact with Pakistan Army Chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani in the run-up to Manmohan Singh’s Mohali meeting with Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani. Read more
Bilateral meetings on the fringes of multi-lateral conferences aren’t unusual. But the one P Chidambaram had with his Pakistani counterpart, Rahman Malik during the SAARC interior ministers’ conference was unique in a way that it was the first of its kind. Read more
I have tremendous personal regard for Aitzaz Ahsan who so bravely led the lawyers’ movement in Pakistan for the restoration of the higher judiciary Gen. Pervez Musharraf had sent packing. Besides, he’s also a veteran of Track-II diplomacy for peace between India and Pakistan alongside such well-known compatriots as Asma Jahangir, I A Rehman and Iqbal Haider, former law minister and co-chair of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Read more
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