Coldly realistic Pakistan policy need of hour

The fifth anniversary of the Mumbai attacks should be an occasion for a serious and sober assessment of India’s Pakistan policy, especially the failure to craft an effective approach to end Pakistan-sponsored terrorism that has gone on for three decades. That will be the finest tribute we can pay not only to victims of 26/11 but also to the thousands who have fallen to cross-border terrorism. Successive governments have pursued an entire range of policies to persuade Pakistan to remove the selective and calibrated use of terrorism from its security doctrine against India. A review of the steps taken over the past 15 years would be instructive.

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