There’s a new smiling face in the tortured relationship between India and Pakistan. Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan’s 34-year-old, fashion-conscious and personable new foreign minister, made her first major public appearance yesterday when she held constructive talks in Delhi with her Indian counterpart, S.M. Krishna.
Appointed Pakistan’s youngest foreign minister just a few days ago, Khar spoke of a “mindset change” in both countries, and of a new generation that saw the two countries’ relationship differently from past generations. “It is our desire to make the dialogue process uninterrupted and uninterruptible” she said after meeting Krishna.
Source: John Elliott from Riding the Elephant (July 28)
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Hope perhaps. Pakistan has been a “failed state” for all its sad history. I am delighted that both parties are pledging to engage in dialogue.
Of course it is wonderful news. I hope it really happens. When I was in Karachi I had a mouse in my room, speaking of a failed state.