Two successive border agreements one with China and another with Pakistan have though generated hopes of a peaceful summer in border areas in Jammu & Kashmir and Ladhak but restoration of the continuing diplomatic standoff between New Delhi and Islamabad in the backdrop of previous experiences are likely to prove detrimental for the successful implementation of the new ceasefire agreement . Interestingly the diplomatic standoff between New Delhi and Islamabad is making the new ceasefire agreement under Narendra Modi and Imran Khan government quite different than the 2003 ceasefire pact. Post 1947 maiden split of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state challenged by Pakistan at all the global platforms is according to several statements of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his several cabinet colleagues the cause of seventeen month old diplomatic standoff between the two countries . Obviously the implementation of the new ceasefire agreement stressing for implementation of all the previous bilateral ceasefire pacts in the presence of a non stop diplomatic standoff is a huge challenge for the military and as well as civilian leaderships of both India and Pakistan. Interestingly the 2003 ceasefire pact was followed by the opening of bus services and trade links in Jammu & Kashmir through a process of sustained diplomatic engagement between New Delhi and Islamasbad. Not only the restoration of the suspended bus and trade links between the divided parts of Jammu & Kashmir but the future course of the Narendra Modi controlled BJP Government in both Jammu & Kashmir and Ladhak would also prove detrimental for the future of new ceasefire agreement in Jammu & Kashmir.
Though even naives can’t draw a conclusion that whether the restoration of 4 G mobile internet services and the new ceasefire agreement with Pakistan is the result of bilateral backchannel contacts with that country or the unbelievable intervention by new US administration , but one irrefutable reality that holds key to successful implementation of new ceasefire agreement with Pakistan is the restoration of sustained diplomatic engagements between New Delhi and Islamabad for the purposes of the normalisation of India-Pakistan relations .
Since both the restoration 4 G mobile internet services in Jammu & Kashmir and as well as the ceasefire agreement with Pakistan have come only after the take over by a new President in USA, people in media and civil society in both India and Pakistan are looking at both the restoration 4 G mobile internet services in Jammu & Kashmir and as well as the ceasefire agreement with Pakistan through the prism of diplomatic intervention by new US administration under new President Joe Biden as the US State Department spokesman while welcoming the move has said “efforts are needed to improve communication between the two sides for direct parleys between the two countries”. Though even naives can’t draw a conclusion that whether the restoration of 4 G mobile internet services and the new ceasefire agreement with Pakistan is the result of bilateral backchannel contacts with that country or the unbelievable intervention by new US administration , but one irrefutable reality that holds key to successful implementation of new ceasefire agreement with Pakistan is the restoration of sustained diplomatic engagements between New Delhi and Islamabad for the purposes of the normalisation of India-Pakistan relations .
