Watch | Lahore Declaration and India-Pakistan Relations

Name: Watch | Lahore Declaration and India-Pakistan Relations - The Wire
Uploaded: 2019-07-24T20:30:41+05:30
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Description: Happymon Jacob speaks with ambassadors Rakesh Sood and Salman Bashir about the Lahore Declaration and its renewed importance in the aftermath of Pulwama and Balakot.

Happymon Jacob speaks with ambassadors Rakesh Sood and Salman Bashir about the Lahore Declaration and its renewed importance in the aftermath of Pulwama and Balakot.

Happymon Jacob

Happymon Jacob speaks with ambassadors Rakesh Sood and Salman Bashir about the Lahore Declaration and its renewed importance in the aftermath of Pulwama and Balakot.

watch lahore declaration and india pakistan relations

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In this episode, Happymon Jacob speaks with ambassador Rakesh Sood (India) and ambassador Salman Bashir (retired foreign secretary of Pakistan and former high commissioner of Pakistan to India) and discusses the Lahore Declaration (signed in 1999), and its renewed importance in the aftermath of Pulwama and Balakot. The conversation discusses the confidence-building measures (CBMs) that emerged as a consequence of this declaration, in line with the Simla agreement (1972).

This article went live on July twenty-fourth, two thousand nineteen, at thirty minutes past eight in the evening.

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