Assessing India's 'Ignore Pakistan' Strategy

Abstract

Feliks Gross once famously said 'even a decision not to have any relation with a state is also foreign policy'. There appears to be a trend emerging similar to the quote by Feliks with regard to India-Pakistan relations. The bitterness of partition between India and Pakistan and then the subsequent issue of Kashmir has almost made these two nations 'eternal enemies'. Post-2000, both India and Pakistan have witnessed a state of no peace, no war. Having witnessed Pakistan using asymmetric methods to fight against India, there appears to be a tectonic shift in India's foreign policy towards Pakistan in the Modi era.