“Right Atmosphere” Needed Before Indo-Pak Dialogue: Indian Envoy

Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bombawale said that “right atmosphere” was destroyed due to the Pathankot attack.

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif (left) with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz. (Photo: PTI)

• India is ready for talks with Pakistan but a “right atmosphere” is needed before any dialogue could be resumed, Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bombawale said on Thursday.
  
  
• He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Pakistan on 25 December and had a very good meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif. But soon after, the “right atmosphere created by the visit was destroyed” due to the Pathankot attack.
  
  
• The relations between the two sides deteriorated after the attack on Pathankot’s airbase earlier this year and all efforts have failed to revive the peace talks.
  

(With inputs from PTI)