During a meeting with Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Imran Haider, expressed hope that direct flights between Karachi and Dhaka would commence in January. Once initiated, such a route would provide not only a practical and long-overdue connection between two sister states of the subcontinent, but also a powerful symbolic gesture consolidating what has been a historic rapprochement between Pakistan and Bangladesh. Business collaboration, trade, and academic and professional exchanges are already trending upwards, and a direct air link would further cement this positive trajectory. More than that, it would stand as an emblem of the undoing of........

© The Nation (Editorials)