He didn't say so; he said we claim it. Wanting it and claiming it for other purposes are two different things altogether.
Incorrect.
- Pakistani troops had got there first, but not set up permanent positions.
- We are on both the eastern and the widest4
- As far as wanting the rest of it is concerned, we gain nothing but access to Pakistani territory. We have similar topographical advantages at the Haji Pir Pass; how has that helped us? Are we planning to occupy Islamabad? If not, why on earth would we want access to Pakistani territory?
Go back to the original point. If we wanted it, we could have asked for it, and kept it away from Pakistan. There is nothing Pakistan could have done, about that, or about NWFP. We stuck to the legal positions, you didn't. We still do, you still don't.
We took nothing. There was an exchange of tiny enclaves, and Bangladesh got 50% more than she gave away. Nobody can agree to something that never happened.
Read your own Tariq Ali, read your own Akbar Khan.They were not paramilitaries.
You didn't make the mistake of helping the US. That makes it sound so reluctant, so passive, so neutral....you jumped enthusiastically into, not one but two alliances with them,into the Asian equivalent of NATO. That was not reluctant acquiescence, that was girlish enthusiasm. And you used the American arms and ammunitions exclusively against India for three decades.
Just at the moment, we seem to be just a whisker ahead of you. Perhaps you could address those gaps first.
