Letters: Policy hibernation

Nitin Pai has put across his point well in the column, "The necessary art of ignoring Pakistan" (July 30). Benign neglect or policy hibernation is needed with respect to our engagement with Pakistan. There seems to be two schools of thought on Pakistan's inveterate animus towards India. Some say that Pakistan is a normal country, trying to leverage its limited assets in its dealings with India. Others believe that Pakistan tries to do everything possible to damage India, even at great cost to itself. The latter reasoning cannot hold forever, but evidence of the past 68 years leaves little room for optimism.

Let us abandon the recurring urge to resolve our disputes with Pakistan and have the National Security Advisor or Foreign Secretary take up that responsibility. The results are unlikely to be worse than those we have seen in the past decades.

Kishan S Rana New Delhi

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