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Two events exacerbated the fragile relations between India and Pakistan, the border skirmishes in January and the violence in Kashmir after execution of one of its Muslim residents by India. These two events impacted negatively the relations of the past decade. The atmosphere of trust and goodwill was at a higher scale before these events. Peace in the subcontinent suffered and the prospects of Kashmir turning violent appeared imminent

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Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari wrote to India’s newly elected President Pranab Mukherjee that it was imperative that their two countries endeavoured to promote stability, peace and prosperity in the region and sought peaceful resolution of all issues through dialoge. Neverthless, the relations between India and Pakistan appear almost static without any concrete positive developments in sight: they are still marked by distrust contrary perceptions of history, and psychological misgivings

Perhaps after the 9/11 incident in 2001, the 26/11 (the Mumbai terror attack on 26 November 2008) is the terror attack to which the world turned its attention with serious concern. It was the first attack on India which assumed multinational character as the terrorists held hostage British, US, Israeli and some other nationals.