KARACHI – Indian High Commissioner Dr. Raghavan, while delivering a speech at Habib University, said that the relations between neighboring countries were always difficult. But things can improve, depending on the kind of policies we craft in future.
He provided an alternative view, emphasizing commonalities such as popular culture, music, cinema and fashion.
Instead of discussing the present, Dr. Raghavan said, he would step back because “history heavily weighed on Indo-Pak relations”.
He touched on Turkey-Armenia relations and mentioned a US official’s recent statement that many Polish people had been involved in the genocide of Jews in World War II.
Then he talked about opposing interpretations of the war in Ukraine. In Asia, relations between Japan and South Korea and Japan and China were difficult, he said.
On the partition, he said, there were different views — one of which was that it was a traumatic experience because of which two or three generations had to bear the burden of history.
Then there was the pragmatic approach that people of the subcontinent could not live together and quickly adjusted to difficult issues such as evacuee property, minorities, currency and banking and new trends in trade.
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