Are India and Pakistan quietly preparing to restart dialogue?
Key takeaways
- India and Pakistan remain publicly entrenched, even as unofficial voices push for renewed dialogue and restraint.
- We should always be ready to engage in dialogue,” he said.
- The four-day 2025 war – which Pakistan and India both insist they “won” – followed an attack by gunmen in the resort town of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir in which 26 tourists were killed.
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India and Pakistan remain publicly entrenched, even as unofficial voices push for renewed dialogue and restraint.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Pakistan Rangers and Indian Border Security Force soldiers lower their national flags at the Pakistan-India joint checkpost at Wagah border, near Lahore, Pakistan, May 14, 2025 [Mohsin Raza/Reuters]By Abid Hussain Published On 23 May 202623 May 2026Islamabad, Pakistan – Earlier this month, as Indian television channels and government leaders were celebrating the anniversary of the war against Pakistan in May 2025, one of the most influential ideologues of the political movement that Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads struck a discordant note.
In an interview with an Indian news agency, Dattatreya Hosabale, general secretary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) – the mothership of the Hindu majoritarian philosophy of Hindutva that guides Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party – said New Delhi should explore dialogue with Pakistan.