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Foreign ministers from Pakistan, Russia, China and other member-nations of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation are in India for two days to discuss “the way forward”. But for the moment, it is enough that Pakistan’s foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will sit on the same table as India’s S Jaishankar. Not that anything is likely to come out of it. At least since the Pathankot attack in 2016, the Narendra Modi government has made any talks on the end of cross-border terrorism conditional. However, it is worth noting that it took back-channel talks with Pakistan to open the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor...
