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The writer is author of The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan. IN the darkest days of the conflict in Northern Ireland, there seemed to be no imaginable solution. The centuries-old dispute between the Catholics and Protestants those who wanted to be part of Ireland and those who wanted to remain with the UK was just too deep. But in 1998 Tony Blair did secure a peace deal and even though that historic achievement is now threatened by Brexit, it nonetheless prompts the question: might a deal on another apparently irresolvable dispute Kashmir be possible too? Two Pakistani leaders Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Pervez Musharraf have considered making the sort of compromise that might have led to a breakthrough. In the early 1960s, the US used the leverage over New Delhi it had acquired by supporting India vis-à-vis China, to tell Nehru he should be willing to hold direct talks with Pakistan on Kashmir. The first round of discussions took place in Rawalpindi in

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