While acknowledging that terrorism was a major issue between the nations, Mr. Bashir described the longstanding territorial disputes in Kashmir as the "core issue".
One side — exemplified by Paul Volcker, the redoubtable former Federal Reserve chairman — sees limiting the size and scope of the biggest banks as the core issue in reform.
There is increasing evidence that AI and Cognitive Science would benefit from shifting from a focus on abstract truth to treating actionability as the core issue for agents.
Before Gabbard resigned from her post in the D.N.C., she had tried to draw attention to what she sees as "the core issue of this Presidential election: war and peace.
Still, military and ideological hard-liners in both countries consider the bitter conflict over Kashmir, which erupted just after independence in 1947, as the core issue that needs to be resolved.
Without directly taking on the authority of the supreme leader as the core issue, every reform movement will fail just as the Green Movement in 2009 did.
It is time we heed the call of conscience, remove the blindfold from the world's eyes, which was put there willingly, and deal with the core issues, as tough as that maybe.
While this round, which ended on August 7th after 13 hard-slogging days, produced some faint indication that small steps forward may be possible, the core issues seem as intractable as ever.A draft statement circulated by China, the host, inspired the most substantial discussions to date.
"This is as much about celebrity obsession and a culture of WikiLeaks as it is about the core issues involved," said Scott A. Altman, the vice dean of the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law and a family law expert.
The core issues here are as old as time-race and money.
