Sharat Sabharwal

Proud Indian, former High Commissioner to Pakistan, Ambassador to Uzbekistan, author of ‘India’s Pakistan Conundrum Managing a Complex Relationship’.

[Sharat Sabharwal @sharatsab]

A thought provoking piece. A must read.

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@HappymonJacob A very well argued piece, Professor. We should not have cast aside SAARC to begin with. In doing so, we yielded to Pakistan’s negative role in the organisation rather than countering it. If we do not present and pursue a vision for our immediate neighbourhood, someone else will.

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@clary_co @VatsRishap And yet, 2008 was the first and the only time that Pakistan acknowledged that the Mumbai terror attack was planned and executed from its soil.

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@YusufDFI The understandings arrived at following backchannel talks from 2004-07 covered PoK also.

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@cdmpatra @tca_raghavan @sushantsareen @AmbMoKumar Please read my post as a whole.

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As a professional, I think his advice is sensible. India should manage its difficult relationship with Pakistan using all instruments at its disposal- deterrence, coercion and diplomacy- as required. Why should it remain deprived altogether of one instrument (diplomacy)?

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | When asked how India should deal with Pakistan, RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale, in an exclusive interview with PTI, says, "...If Pakistan is like a pinprick trying to create incidents like Pulwama, etc., we have to answer appropriately according to the situation because the security and self-respect of a country and nation have to be protected, and the government of the day should take note of it and take care of it. But at the same time, we should not close the doors. We should always be ready to engage in dialogue. That is why diplomatic relations are maintained, trade and commerce continue, and visas are being given. So we should not stop these, because there should always be a window for dialogue."

When asked if sporting events should continue, Hosabale says, "Of course, they can continue..."

(The exclusive interview conducted by PTI CEO and Editor-in-Chief Vijay Joshi is available on https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)

#PTIExclusive #PTIVideos

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@navdeepsuri Heartiest congratulations.

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My opinion piece in Indian Express on the first anniversary of launch of Op Sindoor.

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@cdmpatra @ambtstirumurti @AmbMoKumar @AkbaruddinIndia @MohanCRaja @abasitpak1 @HappymonJacob @husainhaqqani We need to be neither uneasy nor happy, just realistic.

[Sharat Sabharwal @sharatsab]

My opinion piece in The Tribune.

[Vikas Swarup @VikasSwarup]

Silence can be as dangerous as escalation. My piece in @IndianExpress on a world drifting not just toward wider conflict, but toward the most consequential supply chain disruption in half a century, without urgency, clarity, or control.
Are we sleepwalking into catastrophe?

[Sharat Sabharwal @sharatsab]

A must read.

[Nayanima Basu @NayanimaBasu]

#MustRead "In Israel's pursuit of its dystopian blueprint, the only real winners are Russia and China," writes former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran

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@menakadoshi @mkvenu1 I think Chakraborty owes a duty to the account and shareholders of the bank to spell out the “happenings and practices” that made him resign.

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@yashoazad @abaruah64 A wise move indeed! I have had the same experience.

[Nayanima Basu @NayanimaBasu]

#Replug As the Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict intensify leading to the death of Afghan civilians, re-upping my interaction with Amb @sharatsab, ex-envoy to Islamabad, on how Pakistan has long sought to turn Afghanistan into a “vassal state” - Watch

https://t.co/H9eLKLs4rU

[Sharat Sabharwal @sharatsab]

Keeping us on a tight leash!

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

India gets US permission to buy Russian oil for 30-days.

[Nayanima Basu @NayanimaBasu]

#WATCH "Pakistan wants Afghanistan as its vassal state; There'll be limitations in India's engagement with Taliban," Sharat Sabharwal (@sharatsab), ex-envoy to Pakistan, tells me... Watch the full interaction on 'The Gist' @StratNewsGlobal

https://t.co/H9eLKLs4rU #Afghanistan

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@NMenonRao Agree entirely.

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@Chellaney Ironically, it is Nawaz Sharif’s party that has facilitated the transition under his brother’s watch.

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@FI_InvestIndia Jaspal Bhatti was brilliant.