Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Quaid Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has called for increasing interaction between the business communities of Pakistan and Qatar to explore areas of mutual cooperation between the two sides.

Regardless of how the high-level diplomatic talks go, it is likely that relations between the two countries will continue to ebb and flow. While we wait for both governments to implement forward-thinking policies that allow long-term change, the more important question will be how individual Indians and Pakistanis can help bring about enduring peace now.

But many of the diplomats agreed with me partially that neither diplomacy nor development could happen from bunkers by untrained and circumscribed staffers, who remain completely oblivious of locals.

In the past few weeks, Indian foreign policy has convinced itself it is a victim of the POPO principle. Indian diplomats have found America and its allies strangely unresponsive to their core security concerns. The Barack Obama administration seems to take this country for granted. To top it all, Pakistan is exultant, believing it has trumped India yet again.

Pakistani shop owners were among a number of foreign businessmen targeted during a protest march that turned violent in a Mpumalanga township this week.

Rob Ashgar on the potential of cultural diplomacy to ease the India-Pakistan conflict.  

It is interesting how very few American writers have acknowledged the Pakistani contribution. One reason for this is Pakistan's weak public diplomacy skills. Most Pakistanis don't know about this, let alone Afghans and the international media.