India- Pakistan relations have hardly witnessed a long period of truce and friendship after the partition of 1947. There are layers of complications between the two sides; the most important is Kashmir and terrorism. So much is the pessimism that even established scholars evades prediction on Indo-Pak relations. Nevertheless, there had been attempts to mend this relationship. The Shimla agreement of 1972 and bus diplomacy (1999) of late Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee could be counted as a few positive ones. There are remarkable outcomes of both these initiatives in the form of the Samjhuta Express and Sada-e-Sarhad – the train and bus services between the two sides. Interestingly, there are particular geostrategic contexts of these above mentioned forward movements in the India Pakistan relations. The Shimla agreement was signed after 1971 India-Pakistan war. Likewise, the bus diplomacy was also a way to respond to the interna...