Adversity sometimes works wonders that normal event-free times dont. The recent earth-shattering calamity that has struck Pakistan and India both, the former in greater measure, has sown seeds of a new rapprochement in the political establishments as well as the people of the two countries. Though the two nations had already been edging closer to each other,this human calamity has rended the hearts of people on either side of the border, particularly the LoC. The Indian PM's offer of help has been a magnanimous gesture. And, if accepted by the Govt of Pakistan, it should cement the ties of a common cultural millieu between the two countries with compassion, that great healing agent to efface all past acrimony, and to set the stage for a new era of understanding and friendliness.
