Almost two weeks after a senior Pakistani official confirmed the existence of backchannel talks between Pakistan and India, fresh information suggests this quiet process is now situated at a delicate point and could go either way depending on the response from New Delhi.
A national debate was generated by a story published in Dawn newspaper on April 25 headlinedIndian offer led to ‘quiet’ talks on all major issues that detailed a deliberate effort by the two South Asian rivals to engage in secret talks aimed at reducing tension and initiating an effort to resolve outstanding disputes.
While the debate raged over whether discussing a possible resolution of the Kashmir issue with India was a prudent policy at this time, some key nuances were overlooked. One reason for this was the direction that the debate took as it veered off from the contents of the original story and began to fuel itself from various other interpretations of what the senior official had…