The unlikely peacemaker

Indian oil tankers emblazoned with the Indian Oil Corporation logo trundling into Lahore from Bhatinda? Gas pipelines to follow? Glitches in the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status ironed out?
If the “pull-aside” between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani does take place on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in the South Korean capital of Seoul, the gravy train of trade could be a takeaway, if not the kim chi, Korea’s spicy hors’ doeuvre, to at least charge things up in the India-Pakistan relationship desperately in need of a big ticket breakthrough.