Following the successful backdoor diplomacy, the Indus Water Commissioners of Pakistan and India agreed to meet on March 23 and 24 in New Delhi after a two-year hiatus, diplomatic sources told The Express Tribune on Monday. Indus Water Commissioner Syed Muhammad Mehr Ali Shah and Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri will represent Pakistan, they added. It will be the 116th meeting of the Pakistan-India Indus Water Commissioners. The development comes weeks after Pakistan and India announced that they had agreed to observe a ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) and all other sectors. Although India and China recently disengaged from Pangong Lake in the Ladakh region, tensions still persist between the two countries.

Source: The Express Tribune March 15, 2021 18:11 UTC