War Averted… But the Killing Continues (On Kargil)

Kollengode S Venkataraman (Written in October 1999) In the checkered history of post-colonial South Asia, instances of missed opportunities having disastrous consequences are countless. But nothing comes anywhere close to the way Pakistan squandered the global goodwill it had after the Lahore summit last February between its prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart [ ]