The SAARC conference of home ministers in Islamabad from Feb 26 to 28 was big ticket news. After all, Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram was to travel on the first such visit by an Indian minister to Pakistan since the 26/11 attacks. But it wasn’t to be.
A day after the Indian offer for foreign secretary-level talks to Pakistan became public knowledge, the SAARC meet was deferred. The reason given was that the dates did not suit the Nepalese home minister.
But seasoned diplomatic observers find the narrative deceptively simple and suspect a larger design. Nothing can stop conspiracy theorists!
