Satinder Lambah says in his book 'In Pursuit of Peace: India-Pakistan Relations Under Six Prime Ministers' that great powers should not wait passively for events to unfold, but should seek to shape their environment in pursuit of their national interest.
"By the time there was progress in the back channel, attention in India turned to the 2014 general election, with the UPA battling a resurgent opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, which was seeing a surge in the popular vote."
Chastened by the Kargil conflict, Pervez Musharraf will be remembered for gradually lowering the profile of terrorism and seeking a realistically negotiated settlement to the issue of Jammu and Kashmir By Ambassador G PARTHASARATHY Even as one looks at the demise of Pakistan’s General Pervez Musharraf, it is important to analyse the long periods of