After India’s Vote - Prospects for Improved Ties with Pakistan

India’s just-completed parliamentary elections pose new questions: How will the next government in New Delhi engage Pakistan, and how might Islamabad respond? To share assessments of the likely trajectory of India-Pakistan relations following India’s election and the necessary steps to improve ties, USIP hosted a panel including two USIP senior fellows leading the Institute’s research on the best current options for reducing and resolving the 70-year-old India-Pakistan conflict.

Participants: Ambassador Jalil Jilani Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace Former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States

Tara Kartha Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace Former Director of Indian National Security Council Secretariat

Josh White Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Johnny Walsh, moderator Senior Program Officer, Afghanistan, U.S. Institute of Peace