Parliament to make any law for implementing any treaty, agreement or covenant, but there’s no provision anywhere in probably the world’s longest Constitution that compels the central executive to make such a law. That is how, right from the cease-fire agreement over
Kashmir in 1948 till the Shimla Pact in 1972, the Congress government of the Nehru family sought an okay only from enemy Pakistan’s rulers rather than from their own citizens.”
Compiled by Varghese K. George