Countries cannot choose their neigh-bours, Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, told the press on September 12th, but India and Pakistan have to talk to each other because their destinies are linked. Those downbeat words suggested a distinct lack of optimism as Mr Singh prepared for a meeting with President Musharraf of Pakistan, planned for this weekend in the margins of a Non-Aligned Movement conference in Havana. It will be the two leaders' first encounter for a year and the timing is not propitious. It comes just a week after bomb blasts killed more than 30 people at Malegaon in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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