Insights Daily Debates, Day – 20 – Should India Permanently Stop Talking to Pakistan?

Insights Daily Debates: Day – 20

21 August 2015

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Should India Permanently Stop Talking to Pakistan?

Indian Express

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Indian Express

Many Indians feel that India should permanently stop talking with Pakistan and let the guns do the talking. There is growing angst among Indians at Pakistan’s impunity when it comes to sponsoring terrorism. Should India bid goodbye to diplomatic ties with Pakistan? Is Pakistan serious about ending terrorism? Why India is insistent upon peace talks when it knows that Pakistan is not interested in honoring its promises? Will India lose something if it ends all its ties with Pakistan? Will Gandhiji’s thought, that one should love one’s enemies, would work in the case of India?