India-Pak Ties

Edit Indian Express 16 May 2016
Soviet Union and Japan hailed the agreement between India and Pakistan to restore full diplomatic relations, airlinks including overflights and rail and road communications ... Private sector has been allowed to participate in the cross-border trade. An analysis by Kuldeep Nayar said the pact was a complete package that contained solutions to the outstanding problems listed in the four-year old Simla Agreement....

Doors of diplomacy always open: Basit

Edit The Times of India 13 May 2016
During his visit to Shimla, Basit and his wife Summiya also visited Chharabra and Kufri, besides the Raj Bhawan, where he observed the drawing room and its table and chairs on which the 'Simla Agreement' was signed....

Indo-Pak Talks

Edit Indian Express 07 May 2016
They may also review the working of the existing agreements between the two countries on trade, travel and shipping”. This makes it the most wide-ranging meeting between the two countries since the signing of the Simla Agreement when Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto met in 1973. Floods Commission. A national floods commission is being set up to study all aspects of floods and suggest remedial measures ... He was replying to ... ....

Shiv Sena slams Centre's 'constantly changing' policies on Hurriyat

Edit DNA India 04 May 2016
-->. Government has said that Kashmiri separatist leaders are Indian citizens and they can meet representatives of any country ... Even the BJP agreed with us, now suddenly allowing Hurriyat to talk with Pakistan is incredible ... ALSO READ ... "India has consistently maintained that there is no role for a third party in the bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan as per the Simla Agreement and the Lahore Declaration ... ....

India Erases 'Red Line' on Kashmir

Edit Kashmir Observer 02 May 2016
New Delhi. In a major policy shift, India has quietly retracted from its controversial "red line" with Pakistan ... "India has consistently maintained that there is no role for a third party in the bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan as per the Simla Agreement and the Lahore Declaration ... That added a new, belligerent dimension to the bilateral dynamic ... ....

Kashmiri separatist leaders are Indian citizens, can meet representatives of any country, says govt

Edit DNA India 02 May 2016
-->. However, the government also said that Pakistan’s attempts to interfere in India’s internal affairs would not be appreciated ... However, it clarified that there would be no role for a third party in the bilateral dialogue between the two countries ... "India has consistently maintained that there is no role for a third party in the bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan as per the Simla Agreement and the Lahore Declaration ... ....

Govt says it’s okay with Hurriyat talking to Pakistan

Edit The Times of India 02 May 2016
NEW DELHI. India has quietly dumped its most controversial "red line" with Pakistan ... He, however, clarified that there could be no role for any third party in the India-Pakistan dialogue process. "India has consistently maintained that there is no role for a third party in the bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan as per the Simla Agreement and the Lahore Declaration ... Nobody liked it in the government, but they left it at that ... ....

Govt says it’s okay with Hurriyat talking to Pak

Edit The Times of India 01 May 2016
NEW DELHI. India has quietly dumped its most controversial "red line" with Pakistan ... He, however, clarified that there could be no role for any third party in the India-Pakistan dialogue process. "India has consistently maintained that there is no role for a third party in the bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan as per the Simla Agreement and the Lahore Declaration ... Nobody liked it in the government, but they left it at that ... ....

UN on Kashmir Issue

Edit Indian Express 28 Apr 2016
Press conference Panel. Mr. Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, left, and Peace Building Commission Cahirman Ambassador Macharia Kamau, Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations in the middle. (Photo UN/IANS) ... Share This Article. Related Article ... 6, slideMargin. 3 }); }); ... Islamabad conceded in the 1972 Simla Agreement that the issue would be dealt with between the two countries. ....

‘There Is No Compelling Need To Resolve The Kashmir Issue’

Edit Kashmir Observer 11 Apr 2016
Q ... My first book Kashmir ... the Kashmir Valley ... The United Nations Security Council certainly has not discussed this matter since the year 1965.Since 1972, India has been able to insist that, as a result of the Simla Agreement, the matter is a bilateral issue for it and Pakistan only to resolve — despite the fact that third parties have, on occasion, been helpful brokering successful India- Pakistan agreements ... -- ....

How free is ‘Azad Kashmir’?

Edit Indian Express 26 Mar 2016
He obtained this via an oral but secret and unwritten agreement made with India’s Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, as part of their post-war Simla Agreement of 1972 ... The Simla Agreement stated that all ‘differences’ between India and Pakistan, including the Kashmir dispute, were bilateral issues....

Pathankot attack: India awaits Pak SIT visit, says VK Singh

Edit The Times of India 25 Feb 2016
NEW DELHI. India Wednesday said it was awaiting a visit by Pakistan's Special Investigation Team (SIT) and other details in connection with the Pathankot terror attack, days after Pakistani authorities registered an FIR in the case ... "The government of India is committed to addressing all outstanding issues with Pakistan through bilateral peaceful dialogue, as envisaged in the Simla Agreement and the Lahore Declaration," he said ... ....

India awaiting details from Pakistan, visit by SIT: Government on Pathankot attack

Edit DNA India 24 Feb 2016
-->. Authorities in Pakistan registered an FIR in the Pathankot attack case only recently ... "The government of India is committed to addressing all outstanding issues with Pakistan through bilateral peaceful dialogue, as envisaged in the Simla Agreement and the Lahore Declaration," he said ... Pakistani authorities had lodged an FIR in connection with the Pathankot attack on February 18, without naming Azhar ... ....
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