“Relations remain in deep freeze,” former Pakistani diplomat, Husain Haqqani, now a senior fellow at Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy and Hudson Institute, told the BBC. “Neither side believes it needs to reach out to the other for either domestic or international reasons.
“There have been moments of poor relations in peacetime before too, but this is one of the longest periods of frozen ties,” says Haqqani.
Its aftershocks have spread far beyond the Line of Control (LoC) – the volatile de facto border that separates the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
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