Comments by "పానకాలు పూనకం" (@PanakaluPoonakam) on "Pakistan elections: What it means for India as new govt takes over in Islamabad?" video.

  1. I am a political worker in Southern India but I do have an ear on things that go on in our MEA(Ministry of External Affairs of Foreign Office). Though I am a very small guy but I do get to listen to older diplomats, ambassadors and also IAS officers that are cabinet advisers. So here is what with India-Pakistan relations. Things won't move. And the reason actually is pretty mundane. Reason number 1 is that none of the diplomats are interested in working with Pakistan; they'd rather quit MEA and transfer to some other department than work on Indo-Pak relations. The reason being they think they would be wasting their career's valuable time in fruitless efforts that yield nothing after years of efforts. Most of our diplomats are eager to work with African countries - recently we had major breakthrough agreements with Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda and also Egypt. Now, that's a fruitful work. That's a feather in cap for our diplomats. OTOH, with Pakistan they are reasonably sure that their entire efforts will go waste working with Pakistan. So I don't think there will be any dialogue post elections. Indo-Pak relations are in cold storage, at least for foreseeable future.
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