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Champions Trophy 2025: Pakistan reportedly holds backchannel talks on Hybrid Model impasse, seeks clarity from ICC

The BJP, on the other hand, reduced its tally of SC seats from 16 in 2018 to 12 this time and failed to win a single ST seat. Kharge, one of the tallest Dalit leaders in the Congress, had played a key role in opening backchannel talks with the Dalit Sangharsh Samiti, which subsequently came out in vocal support of …

No backchannel talks between Pakistan and India, says Hina Rabbani Khar

Pakistan said on January 26, 2023 that no backchannel talks were being held between Islamabad and New Delhi. "At this moment, there is no such thing under way," Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar told the Senate — the upper house of parliament. Separately, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch at the weekly media briefing reiterated Ms. …

Congress preps post-poll strategy, opens backchannel talks with like-minded parties

With the result of the 2022 Assembly election results only a couple of days away, the Congress top leadership has started to implement its post-poll strategies and has opened backchannels for post-poll alliances with like-minded parties. Goa: Learning hard lessons from the 2017 Assembly poll, the Congress party has already asked its candidates to reach Goa by Wednesday night so …

Backchannel talk between India, Pakistan was on before Balakot air strikes, says book

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and the Research and Analysis Wing exchanged messages with top Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence officials as part of a unique back channel connection between the two countries that involved two foreign journalists Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark in 2018-2019, including after the Pulwama attack, according to a new book by the journalists that quotes the NSA …

Clubhouse Integrates Instagram Direct Message-Inspired 'Backchannel'

Clubhouse finally has its own direct messaging service! Like Instagram and Twitter, the 100 percent audio application now lets users send direct messages to each other. Dubbed “Backchannel,” this direct messaging system lets users start conversations, whether one to one or as a group. To access messaging, simply swipe right while on the home page or click the small paper …

Analysis | Backchannel diplomacy played its part in India, Pakistan decision to cease fire along LoC

Both India and Pakistan have given credit for the ceasefire agreement to military commanders, yet several signs indicate that back channel diplomacy led up to the talks and helped produce a joint statement between the two sides, beginning with Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s call for resolving the Kashmir issue “peacefully” earlier this month. However, on February 18, …

Senior Trinamool Congress leader Suvendu Adhikari on Friday tendered resignation as West Bengal Transport minister, dealing a blow to the party's backchannel efforts to woo him back ahead of the Assembly elections. Adhikari's resignation comes a day after he resigned as Chairman of the Hooghly River Bridge Commission. He sent his resignation letter to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by fax, …