Terroristan - November 11, 2019

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https://www.defencenews.in/article/No-m ... hi-1044252
No meeting with FM Jaishankar in Tajikistan ‘finalised or requested’ yet: Pak FM Qureshi
While both India and Pakistan’s foreign ministers are attending the ‘Heart of Asia’ conference in Tajikistan on Tuesday, Pakistan’s Shah Mahmood Qureshi said no meeting with his Indian counterpart has been ‘finalised or requested’ yet.
Islamabad, March 29, 2021

Pakistan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Sunday that no meeting with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar in Tajikistan has so far been “finalised or requested”. Both ministers are attending the ‘Heart of Asia’ conference in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, on Tuesday. It was being speculated that the two might meet on the sidelines of the conference, given the Pakistan army’s recent peace overtures. The HoA-IP ministerial conference is a part of the Istanbul Process a regional security and cooperation initiative for stability and peace in Afghanistan. It was launched in November 2011 in Turkey.
On Sunday, Qureshi told Dawn newspaper that there is no plan for any such meeting so far. On media speculation that there have been quiet negotiations between India and Pakistan for complete resumption of diplomatic relations, Qureshi stated, “No such decision yet.” Minister of External Affairs of India S Jaishankar also did not give a concrete answer when asked a few days ago if he would be meeting Qureshi in Tajikistan. "My scheduling is in progress. So far I do not think any such meeting [is scheduled]," EAM Jaishankar said on March 26 at the India Economic Conclave in New Delhi.
On the other hand, the Ministry of External Affairs released a statement on Friday that said Jaishankar is expected to meet some ministers of other participating countries on the sidelines of the 9th Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process (HoA-IP) conference.
Similarly, Pakistan’s Foreign Office said on Sunday that Qureshi would hold “consultations with key regional and international partners” on the sidelines of the HoA-IP conference.
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Fakeistanis caught again...

Will the real Katherine George please stand up?
Alex Mroz's pictures were stolen and misrepresented to support Pakistani men being the most respectful beings on the planet. :lol:

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In a piece of rather unsurprising news, it turns out that Katherine George, defender of Pakistani men and their respectability, is a fake. Someone used the pictures of a Polish woman named Aleks Mroz and made a fake account to post pro-Pakistani men content. Katherine is most likely a Khalid. :mrgreen:

Oh, the drama. When will Pakistanis learn not to make fake accounts or trust the words of random white women on Twitter whose accounts were made a month earlier and only sprout flowery praises of our country?
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Humko sirf Kashmeeeer maangta hai!

gimme gimme gimme


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Here's the best part: "Katherine is most likely a Khalid."
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https://www.dawn.com/news/1615597/pm-ha ... tor-faisal
PM has recovered from Covid-19: Senator Faisal
Staff Reporter, March 31, 2021

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has recovered from Covid-19 and formally started official work.
This was announced by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Senator Faisal Javed Khan on his Twitter account on Tuesday. The prime minister and first lady Bushra Bibi had tested positive for the virus on March 20.
“Alhamdulillah, Prime Minister Imran Khan has fully recovered. He has resumed work gradually & started building up his work routine as per doctors’ instructions keeping in view national & intl guidelines. May ALLAH grant health to all. Ameen. Take care of urself & others #StaySafe,” Senator Javed tweeted.
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I think the Djinns of Peerni Bushra Bibi helped out.This was a quick recovery.
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The pakis are in a panic to get the covid 19 vaccines from India.

There is no other source of supply for the pakis and certainly not at the prices that India is charging her people. The russkis and the hans are charging commercial rates as indeed India should also be doing if it sold vaccines to the pakis

so now, after "trade" talks, all paki jehadis crossing the border will come pre vaccinated with Indian covid vaccine


Pakistan govt meets today on reviving trade with India
India, Pakistan foreign ministers likely to meet at ‘Heart of Asia’ conference in Dushanbe
the pakis will contrive a meeting, even if they have to ambush jaishankar at the urinal while he is doing his business. That's how desperate they are.

bajwa-niazi combo are in a very real panic as paki covid cases start to rise almost exponentially.
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https://m.timesofindia.com/world/pakist ... 775615.cms

Bakis have something to cheer about :mrgreen:
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yes piszada, India has the confidence and that is exactly why it's kicking your islamic butt

pliz to note the utter sense of paki entitlement and the icing on the cake "we will be watching patiently" and the condescendingly hopeful "big brother".

keep on watching, and in the past 70 odd years', just like many others, starting with djinnah, have all watched too and returned empty handed. Some dead, some hanged or or "sun roofed" or worse, and many others deposed and/or exiled. A sad commentary on all paki self serving leadership and selfish commitment.

which option will the paki army choose/has already chosen for niazi, do you think

BTW, the hans have finally got your number. How's that working out for you.

enjoy the noodles while you can.

The cheeni bill for the same will enslave your piddly country for tens of generations to come.




Moeed Pirzada@MoeedNj · 12h

Excellent Reply to Modi by PM Imran Khan!

Peace is contingent upon resolving all issues “particularly Jammu & Kashmir”

India is the “big brother” in South Asia, it must have the confidence to take steps to improve trust; we will be watching patiently!

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We will not buy "Big brother" agrument again ... when they are on their knees, they use honey words but no action. How about as small brother, you handover illegally NaPak occupied Kashmir? :rotfl:
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RKumar wrote:We will not buy "Big brother" agrument again ... when they are on their knees, they use honey words but no action. How about as small brother, you handover illegally NaPak occupied Kashmir? :rotfl:
we were never brothers.

not now, not ever. this is the duplicitous wagah kandle kisser's language

wait a very short while and the SM will come alive with "appreciations" of the "noble" overtures of niazi and his sincere desire for peace err piece in cashmere and how "bad" Modi has, once again, failed to reciprocate by refusing to seize the historic moment and is ignoring the genuine hand of friendship proferred by bajwa-niazi.

what they are desperately seeking is trade and access to Indian suppliers and so "khul jha, sim sim" is what they are praying for, before both niazi and bajwa get kicked out by the already very angry aam abduls and ayeshas

they are scamming us again even while their islamic undies are in tatters and the pakis are and probably will remain the most hated jehadi muslims in the entire world
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Working overtime the porki cabinet has given the go ahead to open Indo-Pak trade. Their attitude is "we will allow India to trade with pakistan".

The pakis are in desperate need for Cotton and Yarn and have allowed imports from India till June.Note how they are allowing import from India for just 3 months.

They benefit big time as the alternate imports from other countries is at least 15% more expensive. This cheaper imports is important as Pakistan uses cotton and yarn to make textile products for exports. So Pakis must be slyly laughing at India as they will be using Indian products to make competitive exports to earn foreign exchange and survive another day to wage jehadi war against India.

Check the Puki talk shows from the last one week. They want India to supply vaccines on priority basis using the Wagah Attari border post and when they got news that India will be temporarily halting exports to meet its own needs there is :(( that our smart move to open trade with India will not serve its purpose.
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Vips wrote:Working overtime the porki cabinet has given the go ahead to open Indo-Pak trade. Their attitude is "we will allow India to trade with pakistan".

The pakis are in desperate need for Cotton and Yarn and have allowed imports from India till June.Note how they are allowing import from India for just 3 months.

They benefit big time as the alternate imports from other countries is at least 15% more expensive. This cheaper imports is important as Pakistan uses cotton and yarn to make textile products for exports. So Pakis must be slyly laughing at India as they will be using Indian products to make competitive exports to earn foreign exchange and survive another day to wage jehadi war against India.

Check the Puki talk shows from the last one week. They want India to supply vaccines on priority basis using the Wagah Attari border post and when they got news that India will be temporarily halting exports to meet its own needs there is :(( that our smart move to open trade with India will not serve its purpose.
paki cotton products are made for high end gora markets and are of very good quality and these are simply not affordable by the aam abduls and ayashas who much prefer the Indian made cotton products because of their affordability and quality.

broadly speaking, India and the pakis operate at different ends of the market so there is no competition there.

There are markets in dilli (that I had seen many years ago) where the paki stuff is available.

Lots of Indian stuff in the paki markets are usually routed via dubai, ban or no ban
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a noob q ..Does India not make cotton products for high end gora market? why should india supply cotton to paki when they are our competitors in garmet sector?
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60% of Pakistan's exports is from the textile industry.

They used to be self sufficient in cotton, but not anymore. So they have to import raw cotton.

Being tactically brilliant that they are, they banned cotton imports from India after 370 revocation to "teach India a lesson", and quickly found out that Brazil/US cotton is more costly and transporting it adds more to the cost, so the textile export is not competitive anymore. Mr Kaikomere Ballsqueezeki from IMF wants Dimran to raise electricity tariffs, which means that the textile industry is up in arms.

Now they want to downhill Ski, but save Echandee by saying "Pakistan, has taught a big lesson to SDREs by allowing cotton imports. Does India have the courage to give up Cashmere?!!"
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manjgu wrote:a noob q ..Does India not make cotton products for high end gora market? why should india supply cotton to paki when they are our competitors in garmet sector?
The pakis and the beedis have the advantage of quotas in the EU and other big markets which gives them an edge over India.

The pakis, since independence, have always operated in the higher end of the cotton market while the beedis operate mostly in the lower end of the same market.

china and some other countries also flood these markets.

India does not have much room to maneuver. It mostly services our local and other smaller country markets
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But...We have no katen to export. We are exporting more cloths ( heck my even my Boxer is Made in India). Then ....Modi has to give katen to Bangladesh. So Chacha come next time.
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rsingh wrote:But...We have no katen to export. We are exporting more cloths ( heck my even my Boxer In Made in India). Then ....Modi has to give katen to Bangladesh. So Chacha come next time.

Indian cotton is mostly shorter fibre unlike the long fibre cotton that the pakis usually used to import from places like egypt but they simply cannot afford that luxury now, given the much larger begging bowl that niazi khan is forced to carry.
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rsingh wrote:But...We have no katen to export. We are exporting more cloths ( heck my even my Boxer In Made in India). Then ....Modi has to give katen to Bangladesh. So Chacha come next time.
there are farmers' lobbies that will vociferously demand to be allowed to export to the pakis. politicos know how to play these games to protect vote banks and the politicos will always get their prenegotiated cuts in tax free cash deposited abroad.
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For other commodities like Wheat and Sugar we should desist from sending anything to Pakistan. It helps Paki traders to smuggle their own produce to Afghanistan and Paki government uses Indian imports to control inflation.

Let Pakistan import these commodity from overseas and subsidize it for their own domestic market.
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chetak wrote:
rsingh wrote:But...We have no katen to export. We are exporting more cloths ( heck my even my Boxer In Made in India). Then ....Modi has to give katen to Bangladesh. So Chacha come next time.

Indian cotton is mostly shorter fibre unlike the long fibre cotton that the pakis usually used to import from places like egypt but they simply cannot afford that luxury now, given the much larger begging bowl that niazi khan is forced to carry.
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Yindian katen is short, thin and dark ...
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Gagan wrote:
chetak wrote:

Indian cotton is mostly shorter fibre unlike the long fibre cotton that the pakis usually used to import from places like egypt but they simply cannot afford that luxury now, given the much larger begging bowl that niazi khan is forced to carry.
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Yindian katen is short, thin and dark ...
Actually Indian Cotton is not only Short, Dark but also made of Rice Essentially. Known across the world as SDRE cotton. :wink:
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No economic interactions with Pakistan till they return POK.
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kit wrote:No economic interactions with Pakistan till they return POK.
All this waffling by Modi Govt is pointless. Just put it out there in clear terms that Pak needs to stop terrorism as verified by India, Pakistan has to return PoK, and add other demands. Only then do we talk. It should be on the GoI website so it's open and clear.
Modi puts out a tweet for Paki Day and cricket Kevin Pietersen gets wet dreams about Indo-Pak kirket. And why is Modi wishing them about some AoA Day? Just ignore them until they come to the table agreeing to our demands.

If India wants to be respected, it should start behaving like a power, not just expect others to respect it.

Edit: "Pakistan has to return PoK".
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Pak is not going to stop terrorism as a foreign policy tool, mostly because paki army has backed itself to a corner where doing such a thing will cause further internal turmoil and loss of control. India saying one thing or other may not make a difference to pakis swirling down the pakistan.
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KJo wrote:
kit wrote:No economic interactions with Pakistan till they return POK.
All this waffling by Modi Govt is pointless. Just put it out there in clear terms that Pak needs to stop terrorism as verified by India, India has to return PoK, and add other demands. Only then do we talk. It should be on the GoI website so it's open and clear.
Modi puts out a tweet for Paki Day and cricket Kevin Pietersen gets wet dreams about Indo-Pak kirket. And why is Modi wishing them about some AoA Day? Just ignore them until they come to the table agreeing to our demands.

If India wants to be respected, it should start behaving like a power, not just expect others to respect it.
surely you meant Pakistan has to return POK
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https://www.dawn.com/news/1615648/pakis ... mmad-azhar
Pakistan to import sugar, cotton from India: Hammad Azhar
Dawn.com | Mubarak Zeb Khan, March 31, 2021

The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Wednesday allowed the private sector to import 0.5 million tonnes of white sugar from India, Finance Minister Hammad Azhar said.The finance minister added that the country will also import cotton from India starting from end-June this year.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Azhar said that the ECC also decided to reduce the prices of petrol and diesel citing lower rates in the international market. The price of petrol was reduced by Rs1 per litre while the price of diesel was reduced by Rs3 per litre, he shared.
Another decision taken by the ECC during its meeting was to fix the minimum support price for wheat at Rs1,800 per 40 kg which Azhar termed as a "relief for our farmer brothers".
The ECC also approved the wheat procurement targets of Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Supplies Corporation (Passco) and the provincial food departments. It also allowed the import of 3MMT of wheat by the Trading Corporation of Pakistan and the private sector.
The minister said sugar trade was being re-opened with India this year because of the difference in prices in the neighbouring country.
"We have allowed the import of sugar but in the rest of the world too, sugar prices are high because of which imports are not possible. But in our neighbouring country — India — the prices of sugar are much less as compared to Pakistan so we have decided to reopen sugar trade with India for up to 0.5 million tonnes for the private sector."
He said the government estimated a difference of 15-20 per cent in sugar prices in India as compared to Pakistan.
Talking about the reason for allowing the import of cotton from India, Azhar said that there was a high demand for it because Pakistan's textile exports had increased but last year's cotton crop was not good.
"The difference [in prices] affects the SMEs (small and medium enterprises. Big industry can buy it from Egypt or other countries."
Moving on to the economy, Azhar said that the PTI government had "inherited the biggest current account deficit in [Pakistan's] history and had converted it into a surplus". He said that when the PTI government came to power in 2018, Pakistan's foreign reserves were around $8-9 billion, most of which were swaps or taken from other countries. "Since our government came, if we add swaps, there has been an increase of $9bn of which $6-7bn swaps were cleared. This is a very big achievement," he stressed.
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The minister conveniently does not mention why there was no imports from India at all for all this time. 0.5 million tonnes does not look like a lot, but then I do not know how large their sugar market is. I remember a time during Vajpayee's government when Pakistani sugar was imported.
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morem wrote:
surely you meant Pakistan has to return POK
Oops, you are right, let me go fix it. :cry: :((
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0.5M ton would be ~10% of Pakistan's annual sugar production.
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srikandan wrote:Pak is not going to stop terrorism as a foreign policy tool, mostly because paki army has backed itself to a corner where doing such a thing will cause further internal turmoil and loss of control. India saying one thing or other may not make a difference to pakis swirling down the pakistan.
Probably no difference in the long term but this pappi jhappi gives them a big time pressure release as they spin it as a success in staring down the cowardly SDRE. Best for the govt to at least keep as silent as possible if they can't or won't aggressively call out Paki BS.
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GOI should consider only opening trade on Govt to Govt basis (or at least only with Govt on our side) and trade only via sea. There is a risk if trading via Wagah that they will use it for hawala and drug trade like they have done in the past. In fact most of the stone pelting and terror funding for OGWs in Kashmir was funded via the cross-LOC trade enabled by the UPA govt.
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"South Asia Peace Action Network". Clearly a Pakistan initiated track 2 forum. They only bothered to translate Hindi word "kiran" and skipped "umeed". It feels like 2000s all over again - ISI trained Paki activists mingling with "Indian" bleeding hearts with questionable loyalties under some south asia banner.
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BartS: In fact most of the stone pelting and terror funding for OGWs in Kashmir was funded via the cross-LOC trade enabled by the UPA govt.
True, cross border trade only helps them push more heroin and counterfeit money, and weapons into India, but that would need goods to come from pakiland.

As long as India gets cold hard cash in US $$s (and not counterfeit Indian rupees), and the goods are going in one direction, India may as well deprive the pakis of their scarce $$s.

I don't buy this news item from pakistan until I hear the GoI say it.
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from the above report:
the effect on Amritsar's economy was USD 100,000 a day.
is that even much of an effect?

they dont talk about how much it affects TSP!
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I think we can do a better job of asserting that PoK (+GB) is ours and will one day be integrated with India. Only recently we have been explicitly saying that only dispute about Kashmir is PoK which is a good start. We should also assert in indirect ways:

1. Coin a term to refer to people of PoK. "Indian citizens of PoK"??
2. Create a couple of RS seats for PoK representatives. It's ok if they are not filled. Seats in LS would be better.
3. Govt should issue statements like "we are always open to trade with Pakistan if it benefits Indian citizens of PoK".
4. Announce that Indian citizens of PoK are eligible for vaccination under the Indian vaccination program. It doesn't matter they won't be able to get the vaccines. Just announcing that will make Pakis lose their sh!t and keeps reinforcing the fact that PoK is ours.
5. Create a few NGOs which can work for the welfare of Indian citizens of PoK. It can start with simple things like organizing seminars to brainstorm ideas to improve lives etc.
6. Create TV and radio channels for PoK.
7. Give out scholarships to people there to study in Indian universities.

Just some ideas. Goal is to keep reinforcing the fact that PoK belongs to India.
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Of course, there is no longer any PoK. Pakistan is occupying Ladakh which was historically not a disputed territory and Indian govt. has stated they need to get out of Ladakh. Redrawing state boundaries and making them UTs along with abolishing 370 changed the face of the "Cashmere issue" -- totally brilliant.
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So called "Azad Kashmir" including Muzaffarabad is PoK only, not PoL.
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bharathp wrote:from the above report:
the effect on Amritsar's economy was USD 100,000 a day.
is that even much of an effect?

they dont talk about how much it affects TSP!
That can support close to 50,000 people, because we all know that most people in South Asia live on less than $2 per day.
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https://www.axios.com/china-loans-geopo ... 1b306.html
Chinese debt contracts differ from standard boilerplate in three main ways.
  • Confidentiality: Under the terms of most modern Chinese loans, borrowers are not allowed to reveal their terms or even their existence. That means China has much more information about debtor countries' real financial state of affairs than any other creditor nation, bank, or bondholder.
  • Collateral: China often insists on ensuring that countries set up a special bank account — at a bank “acceptable to the lender" — which China can seize more or less at will in the event that the borrower enters any kind of distress. That money is therefore effectively off-limits when it comes to any other form of government spending, even if it's an official part of the country's asset base.
  • Acceleration: China can declare the loan to be in default, with the full amount of the debt due and payable immediately, under an astonishingly broad range of events, including the debtor taking action adverse to almost any Chinese entity.
What they're saying: The collateral requirements mean in practice "that government revenues remain outside the borrowing country and beyond the sovereign borrower’s control," write the authors of the paper.
I had a lightbulb moment. Why are Pakis going to IMF when their forex reserves seem to be okay? Most of it is probably out of bounds, since its collateral for Chinese loans!
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partha wrote: "South Asia Peace Action Network". Clearly a Pakistan initiated track 2 forum. They only bothered to translate Hindi word "kiran" and skipped "umeed".
Only a matter of time until kiran marries umeed & converts to Islam.
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Exclusive report by bush fire swami. Take it with a pinch of salt.

https://www.news18.com/news/india/a-sec ... 63711.html
A Secret ISI-RAW Channel, Talks Since 2018: What Led to India-Pakistan LoC Ceasefire
Foundations for last month’s ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) were laid during a series of one-on-one secret meetings between senior intelligence officers at a London hotel in 2018, government sources have told News18. The meetings, the sources said, were authorised by Pakistan’s chief of army staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, and India’s National Security Advisor (NSA), Ajit Doval.

Involving a polo-playing General from an aristocratic family, and an ethnic Tamil career intelligence officer responsible for espionage operations targeting Pakistan, the talks began months after Prime Minister Imran Khan took office in 2018, the sources said.
TFTA polo playing jernail forced to negotiate with polo eating SDRE from south India :((
General Bajwa’s October 2018 visit to London, where he met with the United Kingdom’s chief of defence staff, General Nicholson Carter, and National Security Advisor, Mark Sedwill, appears to have crystallised the idea to reduce the risk that nuclear-armed India and Pakistan might enter a crisis through missteps or miscalculations.

“The Pakistan Army had been reaching out to the United Kingdom since at least 2017, seeking its support to improve the country’s relationship with the United States and with India,” said London-based scholar Ayesha Siddiqa.
“At the time, the United Kingdom was the only western country showing any interest in serious engagement with Pakistan,” Siddiqa said.
Does anyone remember this photo from that London visit? Army afsars posing with full of swag but turns out they went there to beg for help to mend relations with India and US because no one other than UK was willing to talk to Pak. Pak was truly isolated diplomatically :rotfl:
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Following the February 2019 terrorist bombing in Pulwama—which led to Indian Air Force strikes against a Jaish seminary in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Balakot, and retaliatory bombing across LoC by Pakistan—the London dialogue came to an end. “There just didn’t seem any point in continuing the negotiations,” an intelligence officer said.

The Pakistan Army, though, soon moved to try to reopen the door. Late in the summer, it shared warnings on terrorist attacks through the Central Intelligence Agency, and acted against the leadership of several jihadist groups.
Pak army warned India of attacks it had planned and acted against itself.
General Bajwa, Islamabad-based sources said, used another visit to London in June 2019 to ask interlocutors in the United Kingdom to persuade New Delhi to reopen the secret channel.
They were so desperate for secret talks with India yet their leaders were abusing Indian PM Modi day in and day out. Why do we always allow them to get away with such behavior?
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