India's decision to keep up the diplomatic and military pressure on Pakistan seems to be paying off, with the European Union’s external affairs commissioner Chris Patten persuading New Delhi to let him visit here on May 23-24, after he completes a visit to Islamabad.
Meanwhile, even as the MEA considered a variety of diplomatic options to turn the heat up on Islamabad, the likely next step is the postponement of the annual meeting of the Indus Waters Treaty slated to be held on May 29 in the capital.
Back at the other end of South Block, Principal Secretary Brajesh Mishra calibrated New Delhi’s strategy by calling in the US and French envoys to emphasise again the point that India’s ‘‘restraint’’ was not permanently on tri