NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06496670
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2016
• Case Number: F-2015-01415
• Publication Date: January 28, 1987

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INDIA-PAKISTAN: Efforts To Ease Tensions
India and Pakistan appear to be taking steps to defuse the recent
rise in bilateral tensions, but both are continuing military
deployments.
India's Acting Foreign Secretary Gonsalves and Pakistan's Foreign
Secretary Sattar have been named to head their respective
delegations to talks in New Delhi aimed at calming border tensions*
,47tee=itiV:o3pmBS-ivi9outs. Prime Minister Gandhi, who has held
India's Defense portfolio during most of his tenure, named Finance
Minister Singh as Defense Minister on Saturday and assumed the
Finance portfolio himself. Afec='s, Gandhi said the
Defense Ministry would need the undivided attention of a senior
official during the forthcoming talks with Pakistan.
Comment: Gandhi may calculate that public criticism will be
deflected from himself to Singh should the talks with Pakistan
founder. The Prime Minister also has placed a premium on choosing
cabinet members who faithfully echo his policies, and he may have
seen an opportunity to further his moves to restock key posts with
reliable officials. Singh already has earned a reputation as the highly
effective architect and proponent of Gandhi's economic liberalization
policies. In Pakistan, the appointment of Sattar, an experienced and
respected senior diplomat, illustrates Islamabad's commitment to the
talks.
The military moves so far by each side are insufficient to constitute
war preparations and appear to be prudent, defensive steps. Given
the deep mistrust between the two countries, however, and the
growing anxiety over border deployments, any military measure is
likely to be viewed as provocative.
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