Barely two weeks ago, on 10 July, amidst fanfare, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Ufa, Russia, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit and agreed to resume the stalled India-Pakistan dialogue.
It seemed unlikely then that the meeting would be the breakthrough it was touted as, given the history of such bilateral hopes. The attack in Gurdaspur in India’s Punjab, on 27 July, proves this.
Typical of the India-Pakistan dialogue, multiple factors determine the volleys in the bilateral, but any terrorist attack can potentially smash it.
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