India-Pakistan Shining?

Pakistan's Commerce and Textiles Minister Khurram Dastagir Khan was having a tough time explaining to journalists in New Delhi last week the difference between the Most Favoured Nation status, which India and Pakistan were jettisoning, and Non Discriminatory Access, the new term to describe trade relations. But he was eloquent when it came to describing how the new government under Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is viewing its relationship with India. Resorting to Urdu, he said "Hamari koshish yeh hain ki hamara mushtakbil aur aanewale naslon ki mushtakbil shaandaar or chamakdaar ho" (we are trying to ensure that our future and the next generation's are both beautiful and shining).