There is a certain element of risk for a step like this.

Though there has been no dramatic breakthrough on Kashmir, both sides are reaching for, and plucking, the low-hanging fruit of the peace tree,

There's a lot of dash in the announcements, but if they have to be meaningful they have to be negotiated away from the glare of the media at the bilateral level,

We forget that at the height of the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union were spending $500 billion on their nuclear arsenals,

Everybody is very angry just now, but emotions should not deflect the framework,

Though there has been no dramatic breakthrough on Kashmir, both sides are reaching for, and plucking, the low-hanging fruit of the peace tree.