Prospects of Indo-Pak Relations

The world is moving towards a complex phenomenon of regional connecvity with a revoluonary content in it. The security challenges, collecve economic prosperity and stability are all contaminated by the vague strategic calculaons with 'equi‐probables'. The phenomenon anchors on regional peace, polical will mutual trust and economic stability. The assent of India and Pakistan together for the first me, in a China and Russia backed security and economic organizaon of Shanghai Cooperaon Organizaon (SCO) as co‐members, may help to evade the hard feelings. The incompability is nevertheless detrimental to their threat percepons and objecves. Both India and Pakistan have nursed serious reservaons about each other since paron in 1947. How would they overcome their age old acrimony? Their contribuon to the pro‐peace and pro‐normalizaon process desired for South Asia by the US to Russia and China for a dispute‐free, free‐trade corridor is vital in regional connecvity and cooperave prosperity. This could help in harmonizing the age old quagmire and bilateral relaons on way to regional patriosm and identy.