Whether the proposed joint terror mechanism with Pakistan will actually deliver results is not the real question before India. It is about India’s ability to construct, in cold blood, a framework of incentives and disincentives to Pakistan in relation to cross-border terrorism. At the core of that approach must lie India’s political will to undertake two diametrically different options: an early resolution of the J&K dispute or a sustained confrontation.
If India has credibly communicated a reasonable matrix of risk and reward to Pakistan, there is no reason to believe that Musharraf cannot do his sums right or that the foreign secretary level talks this week are doomed to fail.
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