Ebook: India-Pakistan in War and Peace

Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- One IC-814 to Kandahar -- The Facts and Chronology -- Behind the Scenes -- Reviewing India's Decisions -- Two Implications of the Kargil War -- The Geo-strategic Significance of Kargil -- Pakistan's Aims -- Surprise and Deception -- Outline Plan -- SSG -- Additional Resources -- Use of Militants -- Artillery Support -- Execution of Plan -- Logistics -- Reserves -- Obfuscation Attempts -- Analysing the Situation -- The Subrahmanyam Report -- Diplomatic Management -- The Telephone Tapes -- International Reaction -- Future Prospects -- Three Tunnel Visionaries -- A New Transparency -- The Cost to the Nation -- Reactions Within Pakistan -- Four Wellsprings of Antagonism -- Separatist Trends -- Historical Perspectives -- The Accession of Kashmir -- Referral to the United Nations -- The Human Dimension -- The Arrest of Sheikh Abdullah -- Cold War Alignments -- Five From Democracy to Dictatorship and War -- The Water Problem -- A Joint Defence Agreement -- Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto -- Lal Bahadur Shastri -- An Unexpected Decision -- Encouraging the Russians -- UN Initiatives -- The Chinese Role -- Good Offices -- Indira Gandhi Enters the Scene -- Six The Break-up of Pakistan: -- Bhutto's Preconditions -- The Military Crackdown -- India Goes Slow -- Ambassadors to the UN -- The Indo-Soviet Pact -- Opposite Aims and Effects -- Nixon's Chemistry -- The UN Debates -- Plus Ca Change -- Mrs Gandhi's Initiative -- "Exactly What One Had Expected" -- The Attendant Political Events -- Sardar Swaran Singh and the Surrender -- Sardar Swaran Singh's Foresight -- Seven Days and the Seventh Fleet -- The Simla Agreement -- The Line of Control -- Mujib's Assassination -- Zia's Coup -- Seven Coup to Coup: -- The Sikh Mindset -- The Games Begin -- Islam's General -- Adversarial and Assertive.;As the Kashmir dispute brings India and Pakistan ominously close to nuclear war this book provides a compelling account of the history and politics of these two great South Asian rivals. Like the Israel-Palestine struggle, the Indian-Pakistan rivalry is a legacy of history. The two countries went to war within months of becoming independent and, over the following half-century, they have fought three other wars and clashed at the United Nations and every other global forum. It is a complex conflict, over religion and territory with two diametrically opposed views of nationhood and national imagination. J.N. Dixit, former Foreign Secretary of India, and one of the world's leading authorities on the region, has written a balanced and very readable account of the most tempestuous and potentially dangerous flashpoint in international politics.