India, May 14 -- Since the cessation of hostilities on the border, multiple voices in the government have spoken about a new normal in the India-Pakistan dynamic. A key aspect of this new normal is that the only point of contention in the bilateral relations that India is willing to discuss with Pakistan is the issue of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). On Tuesday, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) spokesperson reiterated this in Delhi when he was asked about US President Donald Trump's offer to mediate between India and Pakistan on resolving the Kashmir "dispute", which Trump, for some reason, believes is a "thousand years old".

It calls for a restatement that the Kashmir dispute is a legacy of Western colonialism in the subcontinen...