At Ufa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif had agreed to begin the stalled dialogue process between the two countries with NSA-level talks. The talks that were to discuss matters of immediate urgency — terrorism and ceasefire violations — ended in a fiasco with Pakistan refusing to adhere to Indian conditions of not talking to Hurriyat leaders and keeping Kashmir out of the agenda. Former RAW chief AS Dulat, who has played an important role in back-channel diplomacy with Pakistan, takes a look at the whole…
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