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India, Pakistan institutes to join hands

ISLAMABAD: Two pro-establishment strategic affairs think-tanks — one from Pakistan and the other from India — are joining hands to help greater interaction between their researchers.

The memorandum of understanding between Pakistan’s Institute of Strategic Studies of Islamabad and India’s Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, which is to be signed in New Delhi on Monday, is being seen here as an unprecedented confidence building measure between the two countries, bring together as it does two important institutes steeped in mutual antagonism.

The ISSI is funded by Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The IDSA is funded by India’s Ministry of Defence. In their research and publications, each views the opposite side with considerable suspicion, reflecting the standpoint of the traditional security establishment of its own country.

A draft of the MoU says the two institutes will exchange ideas through conferences, seminars and round-tables, mutual consultation and exchange of research scholars and exchange of research work and publication.

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