siliconindia.com: "In a memoir by the president of a nation that had an enormous influence over events in the subcontinent, one expects to be allowed glimpses into what happened behind the scenes during the Kargil crisis in 1999 or the back-to-back India-Pakistan nuclear tests of 1998.
He speaks of India's "beauty and mystery" and calls the Taj Mahal "perhaps the world's most beautiful structure" which was "breathtaking, and I hated to leave." He clearly designates Pakistan to be in the wrong about Kargil. He describes how then Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif sought permission to come to Washington to seek US intervention over Kargil. "Sharif's moves were perplexing because that February, the then Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had travelled to Lahore, Pakistan, to promote bilateral talks aimed at resolving the Kashmir problem and other differences. By crossing the Line of Control, Pakistan had wrecked the talks."
"Our motorcade travelled an empty highway to the presidential palace. In my meetings with Musharraf, I saw why he had emerged from the complex, often violent culture of Pakistani politics. I told him I thought terrorism would eventually destroy Pakistan from within if he didn't move against it,"Clinton writes."
Friday, June 25, 2004
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