When the freshly re-elected prime minister, Narendra Modi, decided to omit his Pakistani counterpart, Imran Khan, from the list of invitees for his swearing-in ceremony, the government pitched it as a firm message to Islamabad. Yet, as recently as May 22, the day before the election results were announced, the then external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, carried Indian sweets for Pakistanīs foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, when she met him in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In early June, India requested Pakistan to allow Modiīs aircraft - headed for Bishkek to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisationīs summit - through its otherwise closed airspace. Modi and his team have successfully...
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