Broadly speaking, two possible explanations have come to be widely accepted on the timing of the quasi-coup in Pakistan. First, having concluded in the wake of the Iraqi occupation and annexation of Kuwait that it would need Pakistan’s support for the confrontation with Saddam Hussein, Washington finally gave a go-ahead … Read More
For him, everything is negotiable, except his own survival The key issue in the crisis in the Gulf is no longer whether Iraq will withdraw, or be made to withdraw, its forces from Kuwait unconditionally but whether Saddam Hussein can survive the withdrawal for any worthwhile period of time. The … Read More
In retrospect, it appears reasonably certain that Devi Lal’s fate was virtually sealed the day he used a forged letter, allegedly written by VP Singh as an MP to President Venkataraman, to lend ‘substance’ to his earlier charge of corruption against Arun Nehru. The issue for VP Singh was no … Read More
