Modi’s Pakistan efforts working LoC appears quiet 2 months

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diplomacy and engagement with Pakistan seems to be working, and hardly any ceasefire violations by the Pakistan Army along the LoC have been reported from early November this year, sources said. This indicates the Pakistan Army, for now, appears to be backing peace efforts between the two countries. It is also speculated the United States has put intense pressure on Pakistan Army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif, who was in Washington recently, to fully support the India-Pakistan peace initiative.

“From November 2 this year (2015), there were hardly any ceasefire violations by the Pakistan Army on the Line of Control,” sources said. The sources added that in the corresponding period last year, there were about seven to eight ceasefire violations; but hardly violations by the Pakistan Army on the LoC from November.

There were 152 such ceasefire violations from January to October this year, but then they suddenly ceased.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to Pakistan on Friday, landing in Lahore to meet Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif on the occasion of Mr Sharif’s birthday. In early December external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had visited Islamabad, and before that the NSAs had met in Bangkok.