Pakistan will need a lot of time and space to get its domestic act together and rebuild a foreign policy consensus. Is there anything that India can do until then? One priority for Delhi must be to sustain the valuable backchannel to the army leadership in Rawalpindi
In the decades since its creation by the British in 1947, Pakistan has been ruled more often than not by authoritarian martial-law regimes, interspersed with episodic attempts to establish genuine democracy.