'Gone Are The Days Of Northern Alliances'.

ISLAMABAD -- Iran had re-modified its foreign policy from the celebrated slogan of 'neither east, nor west' to 'both east and the west,' said Prof. Dr Lubna Asif, former Dean at National Defense University (NDU). She was addressing a roundtable conference, titled 'Indo-Iran Relations: A Reset?' orAganised by the Institute of Regional StudAies (IRS), here on Tuesday. She said that Indo-Iran relations had been far from reset, due to the downward trajectory of their relations since 2017. Moreover, the relations of both countries had been gleaned upon geoeconomics, with hardly any geopolitical factors involved.

Ambassador Asif Durrani, Senior ReAsearch Fellow at Islamabad Policy ReAsearch Institute (IPRI) examined the Indo-Iran relations from the prism of cultural exchange. He said that Iran and India had strong hold on their cultural footprints, which had been exchanged vastly, in the form of entertainment, art and craft and textile respectively. He remarked that InAdia was a secular state and it had installed various Persian cultural centres across the country, hence...