Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- The India-Pakistan relations have usually been remarkable for the lack of good news. Indeed, since the crisis over Pulwama in February, there has been a general deterioration. The nadir was reached with the decision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party Government's decision to alter the status of Jammu and Kashmir (as also Ladakh). The situation thereafter in that State led to a 'lock-down' that ultimately caused the broadening of the issue to include a close-door session of the United Nations Security Council. Be that as it may, all substantive contacts between Islamabad and New Delhi were halted. Trade was stopped. Diplomatic contacts were reduced to a minimal. Once again the two nuclear-armed states...