{"id":108221,"date":"2026-04-17T16:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=108221"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:58:40","slug":"indian-media-claims-back-channel-diplomacy-between-pakistan-and-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/indian-media-claims-back-channel-diplomacy-between-pakistan-and-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian media claims back-channel diplomacy between Pakistan and India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"286\">ISLAMABAD: Indian media sources have reported that back-channel <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/us-iran-ceasefire-is-a-victory-of-diplomacy-and-dialogue-pakistani-ambassador\/\">diplomacy<\/a> talks have been underway between Pakistan and India post the escalation witnessed in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As per a report in the Indian press, experts, politicians, and former diplomats from both nations have reportedly engaged in at least four rounds of informal dialogue sessions following the escalation.<\/p>\n<p>The report highlights that the dialogues were carried out within the framework of Track Two diplomacy, with the most recent one occurring in Doha in February this year.<\/p>\n<p>Further, it was revealed that the first such discussion took place around two months following the May 2025 incidents, with the assistance of a British think-tank organization. The environment in the early talks was reportedly very tense.<\/p>\n<p>The mood of the later discussions reportedly became somewhat more restrained and cautious.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the report revealed that following the four days of fierce fighting in May 2025, official diplomatic channels between Pakistan and India have been largely frozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Indian media sources have reported that back-channel diplomacy talks have been underway between Pakistan and India post the escalation witnessed in May 2025. As per a report in the Indian press, experts, politicians, and former diplomats from both nations have reportedly engaged in at least four rounds of informal dialogue sessions following the escalation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":75458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,2],"tags":[502,40287],"class_list":["post-108221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","tag-indian-media","tag-back-channel-diplomacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108222,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108221\/revisions\/108222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}