27 Jul 2011

we can still bank on the smile

“This is indeed a new era in bilateral cooperation between the countries,” Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar stated on her first trip to India as FM. Let’s be honest. The notion of a ‘new era’ arriving has been reiterated far too many times now – and if these talks go the way they usually do, then we’ll be left waiting for a long, long time for the era that never arrived.
There are hopes that these rounds of Pak-India talks will be different but the language says something else.
"Pak Puts On Its Best Face," noted The Times of India, while mass circulation Hindi newspaper Navbharat Times said India was “sweating over model-like minister.”
So, do we really need a caption here? – AP photo

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