Prior to the Mumbai attacks, India and Pakistan had been engaged in a so-called "composite dialogue" structured to address disputes over a range of bilateral issues, including water, trade, commerce and the pivotal dispute over the border region of Kashmir.
Before the Mumbai attacks, India and Pakistan had been engaged in a so-called composite dialogue structured to address disputes over a variety of bilateral issues, including water, trade, commerce and the pivotal dispute over the border region of Kashmir.
Republican senators in the bipartisan group have said a border standard is pivotal to their efforts.
The operation may be the first act of a violent, and potentially pivotal, spring season along the mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to Western diplomats, Pakistani military experts and American military officials.
As migrants and refugees continue to flow into Europe, Röszke Camp in Hungary just across the border from Serbia has become a pivotal point in the journey for thousands.
Despite its name — the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region — this strategically pivotal expanse of desert and snow-draped mountains that borders several Central Asian nations is tightly controlled by Beijing.
The additional marines -- about 2,000 to 2,200 are now aboard three ships in the gulf -- would add significant reinforcements at a pivotal moment in the running battle along the Afghan-Pakistani border.
Sheik Maskin, once home to 25,000 people, is considered pivotal because it is near major highways leading to Damascus, the Jordanian border and other areas in the south.
