About Kargil, about the bases & about the cooperation with the Americans & so much more; I think we'd get to know the facts only a few decades later when the files on them are declassified for right now we're all talking on the basis of mere conjecture which maybe right or it maybe wrong ! On my part I've never really understood the raison detre of the Kargil Conflict & the explanations given till now (by both sides) don't really add up for me. Similarly I think the whole War On Terror & the cooperation has more to it than that which meets the eye & the logic that some of us prescribe to that as if it was a 'caving in' or due to some 'personal incentives' isn't something I can wholly palate ! On the face of it either decision looks less than optimum but I'd rather defer the finality of my decision till more facts come to light.
On the Kashmir issue - If what is said to have been proposed (the entire framework/formula) is indeed true, then I would think it to be a brilliant thing for that helps us exponentially more than it ever could help India. The People-to-People connection favors us because the exchanges, the ensuing trade, the intermarriages etc. would be with us as was always the case historically - why do you think there are so many of us Kashmiris in Punjab & the sort ? And so in the long run had we been able to consolidate our narrative better we would have won ! So if it were true...I'd consider it a commendable plan !
how are you ?
