How to cite this journal: Author, Date of the post, WMO Conflict Insight, Title of the post, ISSN: 2628 6998, https://worldmediation.org/journal/ ABSTRACT * This article examines why diplomatic resolution of the India Pakistan conflict has repeatedly failed, identifying four interlocking obstacles. The first is the paralysis of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, whose consensus rule allows a single withdrawal to cancel a summit, and which the author regards as caught in a cycle where poor bilateral relations disable the organisation and its weakness in turn prevents dialogue. The
second is the role of China, described as Pakistan’s principal defence partner and as a counterweight to Indian…
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