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Pakistan seems to have come a long way since the 1960s when Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal, in his book Asian Drama, found its diplomats better gifted with conviviality and social graces than their Indian counterparts. Times have changed, so has the Pakistani notion of diplomacy. This was evident last week when Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari threw all diplomatic caution to the winds while criticising Narendra Modi, a duly elected prime minister of a democracy whose credentials are next to none. By this single act, which may get him some brownie points among his electorates back home and disparate...
