ISAS Insights

India and Pakistan must learn that Pathankot and Peshawar were mindless acts of terror, to prevent whose recurrence, there is the need to enhance cooperation, not diminish it. Pakistan must continue to take the preventive measures in real earnest, and India must try and rein in the detractors. The stakes are staggeringly high for both. Failure in carrying forward the initiative for comprehensive dialogue that has happily begun may have winners among the ‘nay-sayers’, but will also have two losers: India and Pakistan.