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DECEMBER 22-23, 2001 - CONFERENCE ROOM |
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ABSTRACT INDIA-PAKISTAN SUMMIT DIPLOMACY: A VIEW FROM ISLAMABAD NOMAN SATTAR*
India-Pakistan relations have been acrimonious since the day they achieved independence. The legacy of the partition, and
ensuing problems prevented close and friendly relations between the two neighbors. Pressing political problems and issues of concern, however, brought the leaders of the two countries together for summit meetings. These
have yielded mixed results. Summit diplomacy has formed an important part of India-Pakistan adversarial relationship. Like other forms of diplomacy, it involves many variables, role of leadership, regional
political context, and the nature of issues/crisis, and the time factor. While India-Pakistan summit diplomacy could be studied chronologically, one way to approach it is in terms of the following
variables: Context: The national and regional contexts, the environment, pressures. Leadership: The roles of leadership, civil, military, its aspirations, pressures. Issues: Nature of issues, nature and magnitude of crises. Results: gains/losses, implications, prospects. Indo-Pakistan summit diplomacy has changed in many
ways in the five decades of their adversarial existence. The paper would attempt to examine summit diplomacy in the above framework, to bring out generalities, trends and patterns, for a better understanding of the
phenomenon, and of India-Pakistan relations.
* Senior Research Fellow, Area Study Center for Africa, North & South America, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad
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