Startling as it may sound at a time when extraterritorial military action has been common enough and India and Pakistan came close enough to a full-scale war, India may have to take a pragmatic view of international relations in shaping which Pakistan, as the only Muslim-majority country known to have nuclear weapons, also holds strategic cards

The sands have been shifting so much in geopolitics this year as to have thrown up several surprises even as two wars in Europe and the Middle East have been prompting the reshaping of foreign relations among nations. The latest development comes in the strategic mutual defence pact that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed this week with a Nato-like collective defence clause stating, “any aggression against either country shall be considered an aggres

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