IN a world awash with violence, where the old geopolitical rules of the game are being rapidly rewritten, there is a need for states to display maturity and rational behaviour in statecraft. This is all the more true in troubled regions such as South Asia, which have been witnessing friction for decades, and where nuclear weapons are part of the equation. Addressing a workshop in Islamabad recently, adviser to the National Command Authority and former head of the Strategic Plans Division retired Lt-Gen Mazhar Jamil highlighted the shrinking space for diplomacy in South Asia. He added that the erosion of arms control frameworks and reliance on hard power were creating “new challenges to strategic........

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