Hope community members are having good time at APRICOT & APNIC meet at New Delhi.
I was wondering why there's no direct routes between India & Pakistan? Whenever I am tracing a route between India & Pakistan - it goes via HK/Singapore or London. There are 4 cable landings in Karachi - SEA-ME-WE-4, SEA-ME-WE 3, I-ME-WE and Transworld (TWA-1). Except Transworld - rest all 3 systems touch Mumbai directly. But still I don't see any of Indian telcos peering/selling transit/connecting to Pakistan based backbones. Let me know if I missed something. Maybe no business on layer 3 but selling only submarine fiber circuits on layer 2? Is there's any policy of which prevents such connection?