So long as it is an unstable society characterised by economic and political turbulence, Pakistan will remain a victim of its own insecurities. In this respect, Pakistan is unlikely to change for some time to come. Hence, there are limits to the scope for Indo-Pakistani understanding. A judicious strategy would be to restrict ourselves to nuclear risk reduction and confidence-building. More can be done, beginning perhaps with a formal pact on non-deployment.
Nuclear war is ruled out.
No rational policy-maker on either side can possibly conceive of political gain from nuclear conflict. We should limit our worries to the possibility of accidental war, e.g., war caused by malfunctioning computers. Conventional war is equally unlikely. The Pakistanis pretended not to be involved, while India threw everything into the fray, but only on its own territory. At Kargil, we were shockingly careless, a lapse we can avoid in future.