Allow me to take the first shot here:
1. Stop giving active support to Jehadi's, that they stop the terrorist activities Kashmir.
2. Stop funding separatists in India.
3. Stop giving diplomatic support to the terrorists.
4. Stop trying to counter India or block India out of international treaties or organisations.
5.Start reciprocating trade measures to India. Grant MFN status, stop trying to block SAFTA or other trade initiatives in the area. In essence start an FTA in the region.
6.Give India on an equal chance in the Pakistani market as being given to foreign countries and and being favourable to China. Chinese companies are prefered in every aspect in Pakistan.
Acc. to me these are the steps required from Pakistan's side so that India can actually and truely trust Pakistan. The first 4 being vital. If all the steps above are actually done then India would trust Pakistan, distrust would be a thing of a distant land.
What if i might ask would you think are the steps that should be taken by India to reduce her distrust in Pakistan?
Thankyou for posting something we can debate about rather then the old arguments,claims and counter claims that get us no where.
1. Stop giving active support to Jehadi's, that they stop the terrorist activities Kashmir.
How do we verify that cross border movement has stopped other then take the word of either pakistan or india?
What timeframe/mechanisim would be acceptable to both countries to solve this first problem.
2. Stop funding separatists in India.
I think this would happin as a natural consequence of a peace agreement. I do not know of widespread funding of anti state movements in india by pakistan other then punjab and kashmir.I am sure you will expand my knowledge on this issue.
I think all the points you make will be resolved by takling the kashmir issue.
You asked me what would be the steps that should be taken by India to reduce her distrust in Pakistan.
1 Keep the indian army on the border for a fixed period of time in kashmir(this puts to rest the fear in india that the pakistanis are going to walk into kashmir and take over once the indians vacate the border)
During that period send the army back to barracks that is in interior kashmir and let the army numbers go back to pre 80s level.
Same goes for pakistan.
2 Free movement of political leaders of indian and pakistan kashmir to meet each other and release of all political prisoners.
3 A fixed timetable that the indians and pakistani can follow once the first demands are forfilled.This is important to pakistan as it will stop the fear of not getting anthing solved at the end of the peace process but the status quo even after they have dismantled the freedom movement in kashmir.
I would class these as the most important first few steps that the indians could take to stop pakistani apprehension.
The points you make are logical but how do we verify that fighters are not crossing over.
We can take on board the northern ireland peace process and the south african method to solve this problem.
In northern ireland the IRA put down there guns first then the british government made there move towards peace.There was a timetable that the the irish and british worked towards.