If not, we will have ourselves to blame. Today there is a choice of whether to use or not to use the opportunities for peace and co-operation. In ten years from now there will be no choice. If in 2010, we wake up one morning and realise that the previous decade has been lost, it would not be possible to do anything about it. Time is one commodity that, once spent, can not be retrieved.
Time flows ahead and only ahead.
In the previous column,War and Peace, he discussed the future of the India-Pakistan conflict.