India-Pakistan relations: Charting a course without reliable maps
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Seven decades after partition, the landscape of India-Pakistan relations remains a wasteland. We have eaten a lot of bitterness. The interdependence stemming from shared history, the timber of our humanity, culture and language has eluded us. Indeed, the past in our relations ensnares us. Yawning trust deficit What defines the relationship is a yawning trust deficit that is embedded in its entrails. The very fact of the existence of this trust deficit prevents substantive progress in achieving our dreams of a regionally integrated South Asia, a South Asian Commons. Transportation linkages, common markets, shared development and the movement of people are all elusive prospects in this...