For too long now India has been refusing to re-start composite dialogue with Pakistan with the result that restoration of stable normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir continues to be as elusive as it was when the bilateral process was shattered by the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Normalisation of the ground situation in Kashmir, following the turbulent summer of 2010, continues to be too tenuous in the absence of concrete political backup. Lack of progress on the political front is clearly linked with the stalemate prevailing on the India-Pakistan front.