The 14th Khushwant Singh Literary Festival began in Himachal Pradesh’s Kasauli on Friday with a call for a “warm handshake” with Pakistan from former Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) chief AS Dulat, who also cautioned against a Gen Z “turmoil” taking shape in the country.

Recollecting Khushwant Singh’s famous novel ‘Train to Pakistan’, Dulat underscored the necessity for a dialogue between India and Pakistan, and asserted that there should be a “warm handshake”, whether on the cricket field or the diplomatic table, between the two sides.

“India and Pakistan have had strained relations for quite some time. But whenever there was a rise in militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, cross-border dialogues helped minimise the threat,” Dulat said, recalling that even after the Kargil conflict in 1999,

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