The reaffirmation of the 2003 ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan has taken everyone by surprise. The agreement came at a time when the relations between India and Pakistan had plunged to their lowest in the wake of the withdrawal of Article 370 in August 2019. A lot has been written about the accord in India and Pakistan and also in international media.
The development has been analyzed from all angles which have helped to put it in perspective. But there is no certainty so far as to what is in store for India-Pakistan relations in near future: there is hope that the LoC agreement will be followed up with a dialogue between the two countries where the “issues of core concern” to the two countries will be discussed.
HIGH LEVEL APPROVAL
According to a report carried by The Hindu, India-Pakistan ceasefire had a high-level approval. The report quotes the former High Commissioner to Pakistan and the Director-General of the MEA-run think tank TCA Raghavan as having said that “a decision like this in both countries would have involved a considerable amount of interagency discussion and consensus”.
In Raghavan’s perception, the next step could be the restoration of High Commissioners to the missions in Delhi and Islamabad, who were withdrawn in the wake of the government’s decision to revoke Article 370 in August 2019. This, Raghavan feels, could be followed by cooperation on Covid-19 and healthcare given Pakistan’s acceptance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 5-point proposal for sharing healthcare information, medicines, vaccines and allowing visas for healthcare professionals in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region.
This story is from the March 07, 2021 edition of Kashmir Life.
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