On the event of Eid a week ago, Pakistan's Executive Nawaz Sharif allegedly sent a container of mangoes to Indian head administrator Narendra Modi.
Be that as it may, relations were not sweetened therefore.
The celebration blessing came even as India and Pakistan traded fire in the debated Kashmir district, in which no less than five regular folks on both sides were slaughtered.
"Sharif resorts to 'mango strategy' in the midst of cross-fringe shelling," read a daily paper feature.
"Mangoes were conveyed to Mr Modi through authority channels even as Pakistan was blaming us for flying an automaton into its airspace," the Hindustan Times cited an Indian official as saying on state of obscurity.
Mr Sharif sent 10kg of mangoes to Mr Modi, 15kg to Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and 10kg each to previous Head administrators Atal Behari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh.
Notwithstanding, "mango tact" is not living up to expectations: it didn't diminish cross-fringe strains, and on Monday, India pointed the finger at Pakistan for an assault on a transport and police headquarters in Gurudaspur in the northern Punjab state. Ten individuals, including a senior Indian policeman, were executed in the assault.
What's more, prior this month, pressures on the outskirt implied that Pakistani officers declined to acknowledge desserts on the event of Eid from their Indian partners.
Yearly custom
The trading of desserts between the two nations on celebrations is as much a custom as mango tact - with one distinction.
Pakistan sends mangoes to New Delhi consistently, paying little mind to the security environment between the two nations, however India does not respond with mangoes.
A representative for India's remote service declined to clarify why India does not respond Pakistan's mango strategy, or give any points of interest of mangoes got by Indian pioneers.Sources in Pakistan, the world's fifth biggest maker of mangoes, say that it is a yearly custom for Pakistan to send boxes of mangoes to heads of different nations, not simply India.
Mango ranchers in South Asia frequently send boxes of their produce to critical individuals in their general vicinity, a demonstration of sharing as much as flaunting.
Pakistan, plainly pleased with its mangoes, is by all accounts recreating the convention of mango plantation proprietors at a country state scale.
Sources in Pakistan say the nation sent a blend of different nearby mixed bags, for example, Sindhri, Langda and Chaunsa, which are likewise found in India.
They likewise incorporate a well known mixed bag called Anwar Ratol.
Few individuals realize that Anwar Ratol, as well, hails from India. It takes its name from the town of Ratol, two hours east of Delhi.Known as the ruler of natural products, mangoes began in the Indian subcontinent, as showed by its exploratory name, Magnifera Indica. It is the national product of both India and Pakistan.
While India develops more than 1,200 assortments of mangoes, Pakistan grows 33% of that number.
India is the world's biggest maker of mangoes, developing about eight times the amount of mangoes that Pakistan does. In any case, it is the quality that is a matter of extraordinary question in the middle of Indians and Pakistanis.
"It would be a smart thought for India to send mangoes to Pakistan's pioneers as well," says previous representative and Congress party pioneer Mani Shankar Aiyar.
He promptly had doubts.
"Having served in the (now outdated) Indian office in Karachi, I can let you know that Indian mangoes would have some major difficulty coordinating theirs, unless we move in right on time with the Alphonsos," Aiyar said, alluding to an especially sweet assortment of mangoes found in Maharashtra.
Numerous Indians glad for their mangoes would differ with Mr Aiyar, who included that such measures were minor tokenism, pointless on the grounds that they don't join substantive talks and arrangements.
Pakistani political analyst Ayesha Siddiqa concurs with him.
"Mangoes and cricket, these are old strategies used to re-beginning India-Pakistan talks. India and Pakistan appear to have nothing but the same old thing new to say to one another," she says.
Shivam Vij is a Delhi-based free writer.