Normalization of Pak - India Relations

Summary. More than six years after India and Pakistan withdrew their top diplomats in the aftermath of the 2019 Pulwama attack, the two neighbours remain locked in a diplomatic freeze that has now outlasted even the post-war silences of the past. What's more problematic is that even the informal dialogue, which has been sponsored by NGOs and civil society groups and was critical to building bridges between the two countries, remains missing. However, it is also true that permanent disengagement between the two nuclear-armed neighbours is neither practical nor sustainable.