New veins may contain less toxic blood. New generations in both India and Pakistan may be more willing to let the past stay in the past.
In March 1948, when Indo-Pak bitterness over Kashmir was fresh, Eric Streiff of the Neue lurcher Zeitung asked Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan´s founder and Governor-General, whether India and Pakistan would cooperate against any outside aggression. Jinnah´s reply, reproduced in Karachi´s Dawn of 12 March 1948, and later on page 499 of S.M. Ikram´s Modern Muslim India and the Birth of Pakistan, was as follows:
Personally, 1 have no doubt in my mind that it..is of vital importance to Pakistan and India as independent sovereign states to collaborate in a friendly way jointly to defend their frontiers.
But this depends entirely on whether Pakistan and India can resolve their own differences in the first instance… If we can put our own house in order internally, we may be able to play a very great part externally in all international affairs.