Something different about Islamabad talks

June 24, 2011 14:44

Sheela Bhatt, in Islamabad to cover the foreign secretaries' parleys, sent this piece of news:

The second day of foreign secretary-level talks is equally important. As India and Pakistan sit down across the table and talk about Kashmir and only Kashmir, the two sides have learnt lessons in the last one decade of ups and downs.

From the failure of the 2001 Agra talks to Sharm-el-Sheikh in 2009, both sides tried to be too clever in using their media. Now, the spokesmen from both the sides are talking to the media only in a calibrated fashion. Their use of words is, as expected, diplomatic and they are co-ordinating their statements better. The fundamental things are going to remain the same, more or less, but the continuing chant of peace and security is most heartening and good for both countries.

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