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Daghaa - betrayal

Khushwant Singh
The Sunday Afternoon Despatch and Courier
July 18, 1999


    Title: Daghaa - betrayal
    Author: Khushwant Singh
    Publication: The Sunday Afternoon Despatch and Courier
    Date: July 18, 1999 
    
    It is becoming increasingly difficult to take words spoken by
    Pakistani leaders on trust: Our faith in their integrity has been
    rudely shaken.
    
    After 50 years of acceptance of the Line of Actual Control as the
    border between the two countries, what provoked them to allow elements
    hostile to India to cross it and entrench themselves in our
    temporarily unoccupied outposts?  And now Nawaz Sharif having realised
    that military adventurism has turned world opinion against Pakistan is
    desperately trying to wriggle out of the trap he laid for himself and
    his country.
    
    First he denied that Pakistan had any hand in the intruders getting a
    foothold on Indian territory.  He was confronted with hard evidence
    proving Pakistan's collusion in the sneak operation.  Then he denied
    that regulars of the Pakistan army were in any way Involved in the
    operation.  He is now given concrete evidence in the form of Pakistani
    soldiers captured or killed on the Indian side of the Line of
    Control.  All options of lying his way out of the predicament have
    been closed.
    
    If he now orders the unconditional withdrawal of Intruders from Indian
    territory he win have to face the ire of the hawks in his armed forces
    and fundamentalist political groups in his country who are forever
    clamouring for jehad against India.  I would not take a month's
    insurance on the life of hapless Nawaz Sharif.  He has betrayed us and
    he had betrayed his own countrymen.
    
    I have little doubt that Operation Vijay will end In victory for
    India.  Nasr min Allah Fateh-un gareeb - Allah grants victory to
    people whose cause is just said Prophet Mohammed.  Our cause is just,
    Pakistan's not: it has allowed its leaders to commit daghaa against
    us.
    



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