Despite Jadhav’s sentence, Nawaz-Modi meeting very much on cards

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/Given the current hostile environment, very few would bet in favour of any engagement between Pakistan and India. But the chequered history of the South Asian rivals’ relationship shows that they can spring surprises when odds are against them.

Few had predicted that India’s then prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee would travel to Lahore by bus merely months after the two countries conducted tit-for-tat nuclear tests in 1998.

In 2001, the two countries were on the brink of a war after an attack on India’s parliament. But just seven months later, the Agra summit took place and Vajpayee sat down with Pervez Musharraf, whom the former had accused of sabotaging the Lahore declaration through the Kargil adventure.