World Politics Review

India and Pakistan: The Latest Diplomatic Debacle


By Neeta Lal | 23 Jul 2010

NEW DELHI -- Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna's three-day visit to Pakistan last week to move the bilateral Composite Dialogue forward will be joining a long list of Indo-Pak diplomatic debacles, the most recent one being at Sharm el-Sheikh last July.

However, even by the abysmal standards of Indo-Pakistani diplomacy, the public spat between Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart, Mehmood Qureshi, at the joint press conference in Islamabad on July 15, marks a new low in bilateral engagement. ...