BJP Needs a Pakistan Policy History Lesson

Justifying India’s new get-tough approach toward Pakistan, M.J. Akbar, the national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political home, argued last week that “There was 10 years of unrelenting goodwill” by Modi’s predecessor, Manmohan Singh, “but it achieved nothing in return.”

There is no doubt that Pakistan is a …