Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar’s Islamabad trip and former PM Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif’s hopes of mending ties signal progress. But the two warring neighbours must do much more to be on friendly terms.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif with India's Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, in Islamabad. / Photo: AFP meeting in Islamabad was one of the key global diplomatic events of the month, but it was the Pakistan-India dimension that provided the most keenly watched sideshows of the conclave.
This is being interpreted as a good omen by many observers given the fact that in May 2023, when Pakistan’s then foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, visited India to attend the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers, he had a However, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who heads the ruling Pakistan Muslim League, apparently tried to compensate for the lack of formal bilateral engagement between the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours by interacting with Indian journalists.-- the elder brother of Prime Minister Shehbaz -- extended an olive branch to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and expressed hopes for resumption of talks between the two countries sooner than later.
An attempt was made to restore trade ties during the days of the Imran Khan government, but senior federal cabinet members and public pressure killed the move. Gen. Munir's posture stands in stark contrast to his predecessor, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, who was keen on improving ties with the eastern neighbour.
Pakistan will negate its 77 years’ stand on Kashmir if it resorts to business as usual with New Delhi following its August 2019 move. These factors make Sharif’s dream of improving ties with India in the near- to mid-future highly impractical.
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