New Delhi’s main question about Pakistan, for some time now, has not been Musharraf’s political future. It is about reconciling the civilian leaders’ positive sentiments towards India with the army’s vicious attempts to wreck bilateral ties. The current strains in the peace process can be reduced only when Pakistan’s civilian government exercises effective control over the army and the ISI, and takes charge of the engagement with India. That would indeed be a paradigm shift in Pakistan’s politics. New Delhi’s sceptics would wonder whether Musharraf’s ouster was part of a deal between the government and the army to maintain the latter’s primacy on key national security issues. If that turns out to be true, ties with Pakistan might get a lot worse before they can get better.