Law Professor: Reasons to Be 'Cautiously Positive' on India-Pakistan Relations
January 1, 2016
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Writing in Forbes, University of Baltimore School of Law Professor Charles Tiefer says there is potential for improved relations between India and Pakistan, in the wake of meetings between the two nations' leaders.
Tiefer writes that the Indian-Pakistani meeting "may not rank quite as high as Nixon's 1972 visit to China in terms of the extent of global reordering." But, he says, it offers a "cautiously positive view" of the situation between the two nations, which have fought four major wars since Independence and have "scores of nuclear weapons always pointed at each other."
"This is to show that it is not hopeless for Modi and Sharif," Tiefer writes of the countries' leaders. "Their meeting in Lahore is so welcome, let all those who want something better for India and Pakistan than costly and frightening arms races and threats of nuclear war take this welcome opportunity to think about the possibilities. However difficult and remote."
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