Relations between Pakistan and India are at the lowest ebb these days
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. (File Photo, Credits: PTI)
Islamabad: Pakistan has invited India’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj for a crucial regional conference on Afghanistan to be held here next month. If New Delhi accepts the invite, it could give a chance to the two countries to discuss bilateral issues on the sidelines and defuse tension.
The conference will be held in Islamabad on December 7 and 8. Representatives from Azerbaijan, China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and the UAE will attend the meeting.
Relations between Pakistan and India are at the lowest ebb these days as the two sides blame each other of firing along the Line of Control and the Working Boundary.
The growing tension saw cancellation of bilateral meetings and a war of words between the arch rivals. Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Narendra Modi only chose to wave at each other despite staying in the same hotel in September during the UN General Assembly.
Later, Pakistan handed evidences of Indian involvement in terrorism-related incidents in Pakistan to the UN and Washington. The two nations are in contact through back channels, but there has hardly been any positive news for the peace lovers on both sides of the border apart from occasional statements.
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( Source : deccan chronicle )
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