India-Pakistan Socio-Cultural Relations During Vajpayee Period

Peace and prosperity of the South Asia region is mostly dependant on the relationship of India and Pakistan. The Nuclear tests openly started nuclear politics in the South-Asian region, which force us to look at Indo-Pak relationship from a different perspective. Terrorism is another main factor, which has affected adversely the relations of both nations. India and Pakistan have common socio-cultural heritage. Film sector, Art, Sport, education, Sindhi Sufi tradition, drama visitors exchange programs are all socio-cultural paths for both side common man to come together. But all these paths are now disturbed. The cultural heritage of the subcontinent was held to ransom by the hostile relation between India and Pakistan. In that perspective the Socio-Cultural relations has tried to critically analyze in the paper.