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While clear pathways for normalizing relations between Pakistan and India exist, any suggestion to this effect evokes considerable anxiety.

The policy establishment as well as scholars, think tanks, former bureaucrats and generals find it difficult to ponder reconciliation or a way forward.

Talking points and well rehearsed clichés are the standard hallmark of track two meetings and symposiums where both sides are determined not to give way.

This is understandable as the Pakistan-India rivalry is one of the most enduring and complex geopolitical tensions in the world. The two nuclear-armed neighbors have been embroiled in a cycle of hostility for over seven decades, with periods of relative calm punctuated by outbreaks of violence.

But now, Pakistan-India hostility has transcended reasonable bounds, causing immense human suffering, economic losses, and regional instability. Historical disputes, particularly over Kashmir, have fueled the animosity. The 1947 partition of British India and subsequent wars have created deep-seated mistrust. However, the conflict has evolved beyond territorial disputes, encompassing........

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