CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTANConfidence Building Measures • February 17th, 2016
Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) are widely recognized concept in the contemporary era and include a wide range of measures encompassing military, political and economic fields. The term CBMs has broader connotation as the term is specifically used by some writers to describe military related confidence building measures while a new term TCBMs (Trust and Confidence Building Measures) was also introduced in a Conference held at Geneva in 1998. CBMs can be broadly categorized into military, political and socio-economic measures. Within the military sphere they can be further classified into conventional or nuclear CBMs. In this connection, this paper examines various types of CBMs between India and Pakistan.
