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Praveen Swami is a Contributing Editor to ThePrint, and writes on issues related to national security, intelligence, police and regional geopolitics. An award-winning journalist who has extensive experience of reporting from theatres of conflict in the Middle-East, India and East Asia, he is the author of two books on the Kashmir conflict. Praveen can be reached at praveen.swami@theprint.in
Some indications that Saudi Arabia may play a constructive role in starting a dialogue between India and Pakistan. 2. Speak in a completely unemotional, unsentimental voice. The decade long rupture in diplomacy cannot be considered a foreign policy success or achievement. There is no way to destroy a nuclear armed adversary without inviting an unacceptable response. 3. SAARC has been mothballed for a decade. No comparable lack of regional cooperation and connectivity anywhere else in the world. In a world where so many certainties and alliances are breaking down, India’s prosperity and advancement must be anchored in a harmonious South Asia.
Pakistan is like a school boy who was bad at studies, got bullied for being unintelligent, got into a college through the backdoor, graduated without any skills, changed jobs or got fired because of incompetence, but still lives to see another day by hook or crook.