Following recent confrontations with Pakistan, India and Britain discussed extending their “counter-terrorism” collaboration on Saturday, the UK’s foreign minister told Reuters after meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Since the South Asian neighbors agreed to a truce last month following their bloodiest fighting in almost three decades, British Foreign Minister David Lammy is the most prominent Western official to visit both New Delhi and Islamabad.
The most recent tensions arose in April following the deaths of 26 persons in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), which Islamabad rejected and New Delhi attributed to “terrorists” supported by Pakistan. Both sides escalated their attacks until a ceasefire was reached on May 10 when India launched an attack on what it described as “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan.
