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Pakistan and Israel - Across the Divide

Farzana Shaikh, October 2005

The World Today, Volume 61, Number 10

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When Pakistan and Israel, self-proclaimed champions of two mutually hostile world religions, publicly announced their 'engagement' in Istanbul early last month, many rushed to judge it as historic. Yet for most seasoned Pakistan watchers, aware that informal contacts had been in train since the late 1980s, it came as no surprise. For them the more pertinent question is: why now?