Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's former president, played the rights cards during her seven-year reign, endearing her to India while ensuring that she was not alienated from her own people.
On her four-day visit to India that ended Wednesday, Bhutto -- who now lives in London and Dubai on a self-imposed exile -- struck the kind of chords that could only have been music to Indian politicians' ears.
In her meetings with the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani, Bhutto cited the example of Indo-China ties, noting a border dispute between the two neighbors did not lead to violent conflicts such as the Kargil war in 1999 or the bloody insurgency in Kashmir.