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The death of Indo-Pak dialogue

India has no desire to engage with Pakistan on positive issues, it's a one-issue engagement and that one issue stands currently resolved in our favour

No BJP politician or BJP-minded journalist wants to visit or engage with Pakistan. They fear being branded inside their group as having become soft
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No BJP politician or BJP-minded journalist wants to visit or engage with Pakistan. They fear being branded inside their group as having become soft

Aakar Patel
A few years ago, for a short period, I was part of the Track Two circuit. This was (from India’s side), a group of politicians, journalists, civil society members and diplomats and (from Pakistan’s side) politicians, retired soldiers, diplomats and journalists. 

We met to explore how our governments could be talking more regularly and because our engagement was informal, we could be open. Most Business Standard readers will have not visited Pakistan and so I will try and reveal that strange country as best I can along with an inside look at the Track Two process. 

The first thing to say is