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139170
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The rise of Ashraf Ghani in Afghanistan, albeit in a power-sharing arrangement, has led to the generation of optimism in Pakistan.1 The Interior Minister of Pakistan calls it a “quantum leap in trust”.2 Pakistan was one of the first countries visited by him [including his visit to the General Headquarter (GHQ) Rawalpindi]. During his presidential poll campaign, Ghani had said, “Afghanistan and Pakistan have a choice: Do we become Asian roundabouts or do we become cul-de-sacs? The goal is a special relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan that would resemble that of France and Germany”.3 Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain attended the oath-taking ceremony of President Ghani which was followed by visits by the Pakistani Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz and Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif. Much bonhomie was witnessed after a trilateral ‘strategic dialogue’ held in Kabul.4 In fact, even when four Afghan officials were arrested in Peshawar, the Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister said that ties between the two countries had “entered a new phase and should not be strained by such acts”.5 Interestingly, Moeed Yusuf traces the “strategic shift” in Pakistan’s policy to the pre-Ghani period 2012.
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In recent times under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stewardship we are witnessing changes that have tremendous importance from the perspective of India’s security and foreign policy. At the fag-end of August, Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Union Minister of External Affairs, had a three nation’s tour of Germany, Egypt and UAE. Egypt and UAE are reckoned as big brothers among the Muslim fraternity in the West and through them we can learn what they are thinking especially after the US-Iran Nuke deal. Modi himself visited UAE in August which has already won laurels from diplomatic circles at home and abroad. Taking cue from these, one might think of a possible strategic shift in India's foreign policy henceforth towards the West which means that India is trying to play a balancing role in the Middle-East compared to her hitherto intense engagements with the eastern states, often euphemistically paraphrased in diplomatic parlance as Look East Policy.
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154019
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Jammu and Kashmir is an area that includes three conflicted regions such as the Indian administered territory which comprises of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, the Pakistan administered territories of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, and Chinese administered territories of Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Highway.
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