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...came to Pakistan prepared to see the kind of tank battles I had witnessed during the war over Kashmir in 1965," Correspondent Kraar cabled from Rawalpindi, "but I found this town completely quiet. It made me feel like that correspondent in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, who cabled his home office, ADEN UN-WARWISE, while a competitor reported, ADEN WARWISE. The main event that evening was a dinner that President Yahya Khan was giving for the Chinese Communist First Minister of Machine Building...
Washington clearly did not wish to assume the role of mediator as Moscow did at Tashkent in 1966 to settle the Indian-Pakistani conflict over Kashmir...
...Nehru confessed much later, "The truth is that we were tired men, and we were getting on in years too. We expected that partition would be temporary, that Pakistan was bound to come back to us. None of us guessed how much the killings and the crisis in Kashmir would embitter relations...
...most fearful eventuality now seems all too possible. Both India and Pakistan deny that they are drifting into an undeclared war, as they did in Kashmir in 1965, but there were reports that each side had violated the other's borders. According to Indian Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram, the "ground rules" call for the two nations to tolerate "minor" provocations by one another. The danger is that either side may decide that a major violation has occurred and strike back in force. Both have sizable forces stationed near the borders-80,000 Pakistani regulars are in East Pakistan...
Nonetheless, before departing for Brussels on the first leg of her journey, the Prime Minister activated the country's military reservists for the first time since the 1965 clash with Pakistan over Kashmir. During the past three weeks, moreover, India has built up its forces along its borders with both Pakistan and China. Whatever misgivings Indira had about leaving at such a critical moment were plainly outweighed by the belief that the time had come to plead India's case with other world leaders. Indeed, her departure itself, signaling that New Delhi apparently did not believe...