It is always good to have a dialogue to solve any lingering issues whether it is on a family, state, national or international level.  Mr. Sharif rightfully wants to follow the same path.  He wants to start his new assignment as a Prime Minister of Pakistan to make a new beginning by re-engaging India with a "..substantive and purposeful dialogue."  Hopefully, he has learnt a lesson from the previously failed policies of Pakistani government including two of his own.  However, as the whole world knows, the foreign policies especially pertaining to India emanating from Islamabad don't have much input from the Prime Minister's office rather they are written by the nexus of Army/ISI establishment.  In view of this, one wonders how much leverage Mr. Sharif has to deliver with his hands tied on his back in order to ameliorate relationship with India.  This writer is a firm believer of exchanging dialogue to solve any riddle, but also holds a firm belief that the clapping can be performed with two equally healthy hands.  One healthy and one crippled hand can't make an appreciable noise.  Does it mean that the leaders still ought to move forward and listen to each other or just drop the towel and move forward with other agenda more important than this one.  Since 1947 India has been unilaterally trying to move forward with the hope that relationship will improve, but so far it has been proven to be a failed attempt.  ONE WONDERS HOW MANY MORE ATTEMPTS NEED TO BE MADE BEFORE BYCOTTING THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR ONCE AND FOR ALL.