{"id":44858,"date":"2018-01-16T23:57:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T18:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44858"},"modified":"2018-01-16T23:57:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T18:57:47","slug":"pakistan-examining-a-proposal-for-a-dgmo-level-meeting-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44858","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan examining a proposal for a DGMO-level meeting with India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, Jan. 16 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan is examining a proposal for a DGMO-level meeting with India after a gap of four years to reduce tensions along the Line of Control and the Working Boundary through fresh confidence-building measures, India media reported on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe report comes a day after Pakistan said four of its soldiers died and five others injured in cross-border firing by Indian troops across the LoC.<\/p>\n<p>A Pakistan defence ministry official in a meeting a day earlier told the Senate defence committee that a &#8220;fresh proposal of DGMOs&#8217; (Director Generals of Military Operations) meeting is being considered,&#8221; the Dawn reported.<\/p>\n<p>The official also briefed the senators about the latest trends in Indian ceasefire violations, it said.<\/p>\n<p>In November, a telephonic conversation between the two DGMOs took place following a request by the Pakistani side.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, one of the confidence-building measures being considered for the planned meeting of DGMOs is &#8220;calibre reduction&#8221; of the arms being used at the LoC.<\/p>\n<p>India-Pakistan DGMOs have a frequent hotline contact, but they last met face-to-face four years ago at Wagah, a village which serves as a transit terminal between Lahore and Amritsar.<br \/>\nThe December 24, 2013 Wagah meeting had taken place after a break of 14 years. That meeting too was held to discuss ways to ensure peace along the LoC and the Working Boundary.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a resolution adopted by the Senate committee through consensus condemned Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat&#8217;s statement about &#8220;calling nuclear bluff of Pakistan&#8221; as &#8220;stupidity and provocative&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They termed it a &#8220;war-like&#8221; proclamation, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jan. 16 (TNS): Pakistan is examining a proposal for a DGMO-level meeting with India after a gap of four years to reduce tensions along the Line of Control and the Working Boundary through fresh confidence-building measures, India media reported on Tuesday. The report comes a day after Pakistan said four of its soldiers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,736],"tags":[173,932,737,201],"class_list":["post-44858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-new-delhi","tag-india","tag-international","tag-new-delhi","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44858","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=44858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44860,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44858\/revisions\/44860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}