ISLAMABAD -- After more than 57 years, an agreement by India and Pakistan to allow people within the divided state of Kashmir to cross the border by bus, beginning in April, is the most important confidence-building measure yet achieved in the two countries' yearlong peace process.
In the next few months a variety of other confidence-building measures are planned, such as additional bus and train connections, to facilitate greater contact between Indians and Pakistanis.
The peace process has brought about an era of reconciliation, but the durability of it depends on two key ingredients.