Can India and Pakistan revive their peace process?

In New Delhi (India)

It has been twelve years since a Pakistani foreign minister set foot on Indian soil. On 4 and 5 May, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari travelled to Goa for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. A very faint hope is born among a handful of Indian and Pakistani observers: what if this was an opportunity to resume dialogue between the two nuclear powers?

India and Pakistan have fought four wars since their independence in 1947. They are fighting over the sovereignty of Kashmir, which is divided in two. Between the two enemy brothers, it is the Cold War. In February 2019, the Indian Air Force launched a raid into enemy territory, in retaliation for a bomb attack that killed forty soldiers in Indian Kashmir. A first. The two armies then clashed in dogfight, raising fears of escalation. A few months later, the Indian government of Narendra Modi abrogated autonomy...

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