Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Perverted jihad
In the `treasonable' speech which led to his arrest, The Friday Times editor Najam Sethi had expressed the fear that Pakistan was on the way to becoming a failed state. But in India, it had been hoped that Pakistan would not descend into chaos.
Some diplomacy this
Within the course of a week, two Indian foreign service personnel based in Pakistan have been exposed to the subtleties of that country's intelligence operations.
Lapses in Ladakh
The Pakistani intrusion in Kargil is reminiscent of the Chinese intrusion of 1962 in Ladakh's eastern flank, when the PLA caught the incompetently-led and ill-equipped Indians by surprise.
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