As the world anxiously waits for the next step in the India-Pakistan escalation ladder, with both countries promising to once again respond and retaliate, we examine the most serious differences after the first round of military exchanges and ask how confident are India and Pakistan of their respective claims?

And then we ask are the two neighbours condemned to quarrel and fight with each other? Or can they find a way to live as good neighbours? Those are the issues we raised in a live interview with the Founder-Editor of The Friday Times and the former caretaker chief minister of Pakistan’s Punjab Province Najam Sethi.

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