{"id":29773,"date":"2017-11-08T17:04:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=29773"},"modified":"2017-11-08T17:04:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T12:04:14","slug":"outgoing-indian-envoy-says-pakistan-india-ties-saw-several-lows-in-last-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=29773","title":{"rendered":"Outgoing Indian envoy says Pakistan-India ties saw several lows in last two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAHORE Nov 08 (TNS):<\/strong> Former Indian High Commissioner to\u00a0Pakistan, Gautam Bambawale, said on Wednesday that the two countries&#8217; relationship witnessed several challenges in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Bambawale made the comments while exiting the country via the Wagah Border crossing.<\/p>\n<p>The diplomat claimed he is satisfied after &#8220;having done a lot&#8221; during his stint in Islamabad. He added that he hopes to come back to Pakistan but cannot say when that will happen.<\/p>\n<p>During Bambawale\u2019s tenure, Pakistan-India relations witnessed several lows, with the most notable being the arrest of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav from Balochistan in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the repeated cross-border violations from India in Kashmir, as well as the Working Boundary, have marred relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The diplomat was recently posted as the Indian ambassador in China.<\/p>\n<p>Bambawale was appointed envoy to Islamabad in September 2015 after the incumbent, TCA Raghavan, retired.<\/p>\n<p>Bambawale was serving as New Delhi&#8217;s ambassador to Bhutan prior to his appointment in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Ajay Bisaria will now take over as India&#8217;s new high commissioner to Pakistan. Bisaria was serving as Indian&#8217;s envoy to Poland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Nov 08 (TNS): Former Indian High Commissioner to\u00a0Pakistan, Gautam Bambawale, said on Wednesday that the two countries&#8217; relationship witnessed several challenges in the last two years. Bambawale made the comments while exiting the country via the Wagah Border crossing. The diplomat claimed he is satisfied after &#8220;having done a lot&#8221; during his stint in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,23],"tags":[157,589],"class_list":["post-29773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","category-national","tag-lahore","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29778,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29773\/revisions\/29778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}