Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Frantic calls
Islamabad had another shot on Sunday at casting itself as the sober, statesmanlike party in the Kargil conflict when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif got on the hotline to Atal Behari Vajpayee to propose "mutually acceptable" approaches to preserve peace and promptly released his message to the international Press.
The fear front
Normal human life presupposes an absence of fear but for the communities living near the India-Pakistan border, trauma and trepidation have become their everyday companions. Every time the pounding of shells reaches their ears, every time military convoys pass their way, life seems that much more uncertain.
The guilty men of 1999
Spokespersons of the ruling coalition have questioned the civic responsibility and, obliquely, even the patriotism, of opposition political parties who criticise the government when the nation is virtually at war. This, it is argued, damages the morale of the armed forces.
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