NSAs flew to Thailand for restarting bilateral talks.

According to Pakistani daily the Express Tribune, the decision to arrange a meeting between the two national security advisers along with the foreign secretaries was taken during the Paris meeting. The joint statement also confirmed that Janjua and Doval met in Bangkok pursuant to the Paris meeting.

It is good to see that the two countries are showing urgency to return to the discussion table after the failed attempt earlier this year when talks were called off at the last minute because of Pakistan's insistence on meeting Hurriyat and India's refusal to allow third-party intervention.

Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj is next scheduled to visit Pakistan for a security conference on Tuesday. And there are indications that two countries are planning a bilateral cricketturn to normal the moment TV channels are banned from talking about them in their jingoistic, rabble-rousing, TRP-feeding styles.

Since most news channels cater to collective hysteria, canards and misplaced notions of nationalism of the masses who have very little knowledge of the delicate art of diplomacy and its nuances, they end up putting up needless pressure on the two countries.

In August, when talks between the NSAs had failed, there were clear indications that the two countries had fallen into the trap of feeding the TRP-hungry media by first attaching a lot of hype to the meeting and then talking to each other through TV channels and press conferences.

"Rarely, even by the tortured standards of the Pakistan-India relationship, has there been as much farce and confusion surrounding the now