India, Pakistan differ on joint terror mechanism
The anti-terrorism joint mechanism agreed between India and Pakistan has already run into rough weather even before its maiden meeting.
Indications available here are that Islamabad sees Jammu and Kashmir as outside the scope and purview of this joint mechanism.
Even more outrageous, from the Indian point of view, is the line being taken by Islamabad that it may be prepared to include terror outfits like Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) in the joint mechanism on terror, but definitely not the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM).
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