India, July 2 -- On the floor of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif offered India a "composite, comprehensive and result-oriented dialogue" on outstanding disputes, and in nearly the same breath demanded that the fate of Jammu and Kashmir be decided by a UN-supervised plebiscite. The juxtaposition was not an oversight. It captured, in a single address, a contradiction that has defined Islamabad's diplomacy for more than five decades: a professed commitment to settling differences bilaterally, paired with a standing campaign to carry those same differences before international bodies. The instrument that exposes the inconsistency is Pakistan's own signature on the Shimla Agreemen...