Finally, there is Pakistan’s latest diplomatic card of inviting India for a dialogue on Kashmir to show to the international community that they are being reasonable and that it is India that is being obdurate. This is quite typical of the low cunning and too clever by half manoeuvres by Pakistan, something that rest of the world which has suffered Pakistan’s duplicity and deceit in Afghanistan should be quite familiar with. Ironically, Pakistan’s wanting a dialogue because of what it calls ‘a grave situation in Kashmir’ actually reaffirms India’s position on export of terrorism by Pakistan. Besides being a case of the arsonist playing fireman, if Pakistan has nothing to do with the disturbances in Kashmir, what purpose will be served by holding a dialogue with it, except perhaps for allowing Pakistan to insert itself into India’s internal affairs; conversely, if Pakistan has a hand in the disturbances, then India’s stand that only terrorism be the focus of any dialogue is unexceptionable.