So what would the Pakistani Army do? Exactly what it did in the last few days. It was such a no-brainer that when we see our experts and journalists shouting themselves hoarse and lamenting the collapse of talks, they fail to realise that India has pushed Pakistan into exactly the place it wanted to. Ask Christine Fair. She has been saying right since the Ufa declaration that talks reward Pakistan and enable them to perpetuate the cycle of terror-talk-terror. No clearer articulation of India’s position has been made in decades in the way it was done by the EAM Sushma Swaraj, who brought home the distinction between talks and dialogue.