Pakistan, Jan. 26 -- India has yet to formally engage with US President Donald Trump proposed 'Board of Peace', amid concerns in diplomatic and media circles that the initiative could open the Kashmir dispute to international mediation.

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New Delhi was notably absent from the charter-signing ceremony held on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, where 20 world leaders, including President Trump and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, endorsed the new body. Although India was invited to join, it has so far refrained from taking a position.

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