Narendra Modi’s invitation to SAARC leaders for the swearing in May was a smart move and it threw three groups into a spin. As the startled Nawaz Sharif government went into a confused silence, the hope and peace lobby in India and the media went into an overdrive. Eventually, Nawaz decided to come to avoid looking churlish and many Indian commentators who make hope their policy along with our media made it appear as if peace between India and Pakistan was about to break out. Having built these rosy predictions for the future of India Pakistan relations, this section today blames the government for not abiding by their false dreams.

Having tried all methods to improve relations political, military, economic and failed, we should now simply put our bilateral relations on the backburner till Pakistan decides it wants to live as a good neighbour. Pic/PTI

Successive Indian Prime Ministers have believed that somehow they held the magic key that would unlock all doors. This is not going to happen so long Pakistan remains the way it is configured today. We must accept the reality that Pakistan is today in a blind alley in its relations with India with its obsessive enmity.