{"id":203731,"date":"2022-09-06T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=203731"},"modified":"2022-09-06T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:42:09","slug":"the-difficult-path-to-india-pakistan-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-difficult-path-to-india-pakistan-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"The difficult path to India-Pakistan peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201cThe difficult path to India-Pakistan peace<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong> published in <strong>The Hindu <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 India and its neighbourhood- relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: About India-Pakistan relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: After the promulgation of the new Prime Minister in Pakistan, there have been signs of a thaw in India-Pakistan relations.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-imran-khans-ouster-as-pakistan-pm-means-for-india\/\">Explained: What Imran Khan\u2019s ouster as Pakistan PM means for India<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>What is the status of Pakistan&#8217;s economy?<\/h5>\n<p>After the Covid-19 pandemic, Pakistan&#8217;s economy is facing <strong>a)<\/strong> Widening current account deficit and high inflation, <strong>b)<\/strong> Unprecedented floods and decades of poor planning led to issues in Pakistan&#8217;s economy, <strong>c)<\/strong> International Monetary Fund (IMF) has begun its $6 billion Extended Fund Facility programme for Pakistan in 2019. It also increased the funding later.<\/p>\n<h5>What are the developments in India-Pakistan relations during Pakistan&#8217;s economic turmoil?<\/h5>\n<p>Earlier Pakistan thought of the economic benefit of seeking <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-pakistan-relations-pakistan-to-resume-trade-with-india\/\">trade in essential commodities with India<\/a>. But due to domestic pressure, they changed their decision.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-pakistan-reverses-its-decision-on-trade-with-india\/\">Why Pakistan Reverses its Decision on Trade with India?<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>India <strong>provided essential vaccine supplies to Pakistan<\/strong> during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Army chief had permitted backchannel talks and a \u201climited trade resumption package\u201d with India to improve Pakistan&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<h5>What are the challenges in engaging with Pakistan?<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Pakistan&#8217;s deep securitisation of the Kashmir dispute<\/strong>: This makes it hard for Pakistan\u2019s leadership to stick to one decision for long time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Domestic issues<\/strong>: In 1953 when Mohammed Ali Bogra and Jawaharlal Nehru negotiated the Kashmir dispute. They got close to an agreed solution on Kashmir. But each time, Bogra\u2019s inability to foster domestic coalitions to support the peacemaking process with India overrode the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The same issue of garnering the support of domestic coalitions is still present in Pakistan. This has derailed several India-Pakistan peace dialogues.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must read: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pakistans-national-security-policy-and-its-impact-on-india\/\">Pakistan\u2019s National Security Policy and its Implications for India \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>When India can expect improvement in India-Pakistan relations?<\/h5>\n<p>The outcome of the next general elections might open a sustained backchannel dialogue and trade. Until there is bipartisan support in Pakistan on the need to normalise ties with India and Pakistan enters a long period of de-securitisation, there will not be any long-term improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cThe difficult path to India-Pakistan peace\u201d published in The Hindu on\u00a06th\u00a0September 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 India and its neighbourhood- relations. Relevance: About India-Pakistan relations. News: After the promulgation of the new Prime Minister in Pakistan, there have been signs of a thaw in India-Pakistan relations. Read more:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-difficult-path-to-india-pakistan-peace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The difficult path to India-Pakistan peace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-203731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704902125},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}