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
. ...