{"id":223951,"date":"2023-01-27T20:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T15:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=223951"},"modified":"2023-02-20T15:06:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T09:36:51","slug":"a-chink-in-the-indo-pak-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-chink-in-the-indo-pak-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"A chink in the Indo-Pak ice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>This post is created based on the article<strong> \u201cA chink in the Indo-Pak ice\u201d, <\/strong>published in<strong> Business Standard<\/strong> on<strong> 27<sup>th<\/sup> January 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus Topic \u2013 <\/strong>GS Paper 2 \u2013 International relations \u2013 India and its neighborhood<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Lately, India- Pakistan relations have taken a positive turn after years of stagnancy.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the developments?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, in a recent speech accepted that Pakistan has learned lessons after being defeated in three wars and indicated his desire for peace with India.<\/li>\n<li>Shortly, after that India invited Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Minister to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization foreign ministers\u2019 meeting that India would be hosting in Goa.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Why is there a positive turn in attitude of Pakistani leadership?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Success of talks between two armies that led to agreement to honor the terms of a 2003 ceasefire agreement in February 2021. The agreement has more or less been held.<\/li>\n<li>State of Pakistan\u2019s economy is critical. It is facing foreign exchange crisis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What are the challenges that still remains?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First,<\/strong> every time after giving a speech favourable towards India, Pakistani leaders go back to their old tracks. This time as well, Pak PM backtracked and later said talks could take place only when India reversed its decision to end special status on Kashmir. There is very feeble possibility of restoration of article 370.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second, <\/strong>In the past as well, efforts of talks have been made by India. In 2001, PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee and military dictator Pervez Musharraf over Kashmir met in Agra. In 2015, PM Modi made a surprise visit to Pakistan to greet Nawaz Sharif on his birthday. However, after both the instances, frequency of cross-border terrorism increased.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third, <\/strong>Pakistani govt. or its military have not yet responded to the invitation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post is created based on the article \u201cA chink in the Indo-Pak ice\u201d, published in Business Standard on 27th January 2023. Syllabus Topic \u2013 GS Paper 2 \u2013 International relations \u2013 India and its neighborhood News: Lately, India- Pakistan relations have taken a positive turn after years of stagnancy. What are the developments?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-chink-in-the-indo-pak-ice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A chink in the Indo-Pak ice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"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":[10503],"class_list":["post-223951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704884920},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223951","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}