Welcome re-engagement process between India & Pak: Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, former Pakistan high commissioner to India says there is reason for cautious optimism about prospects of normalising India-Pakistan relations

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, former Pakistan high commissioner to India and former ambassador to the US and China, tells Aditi Phadnis there is reason for cautious optimism about prospects of normalising India-Pakistan relations. Edited excerpts:
 

Given that India and Pakistan now don’t even have envoys in each other’s countries, is it too optimistic to interpret recent events — the ceasefire agreement, the Indus Waters Treaty talks, and others — as a beginning of re-engagement?
 

Indeed, a very welcome re-engagement process between India and Pakistan may be said to have got under way. The question — and the challenge — is how