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Islamabad India and Pakistan have been engaged in "back channel" talks in order to break the stalemate in the relationship between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, a media report said citing official sources. The Express Tribune report said that relations between the two countries have remained strained for years now and took a turn for the worse in August 2019 when India revoked special status of Jammu and Kashmir. "Since then, diplomatic ties have been downgraded, bilateral trade suspended and there has been no structured dialogue. But even before the government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took charge, the two countries were…