![]() Yet, during the India-Pakistan Agra summit meeting in 2001, at a breakfast for senior journalists hosted by Musharraf, my boss told the general: “I support you so much that in India, they call me your man." I can say this now because Vir Sanghvi, former editor of Hindustan Times, who was present there, recently wrote about what transpired.īut my boss did not know that the breakfast meet was being stealthily telecast live and was enraged when he learnt his words were now on record. This was a military dictator who had launched the completely unprovoked war in Kargil and presided over a sharp rise in terror attacks and deaths of innocents in Kashmir and the rest of India. The wily Pervez Musharraf seemed able to play some of these people like Yo-Yo Ma plays the cello. ![]() It took many years for RAW to recover from this appalling self-goal. Gujral believed that Pakistan had no hostile intent towards India. His friend and fellow member of the Lahore club, Inder Kumar Gujral, caused significant harm to Indian intelligence services when, as prime minister, he disbanded the ground-level network in Pakistan that the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) had spent decades building. He accepted defeat after two or three years of this foolishness. Unfortunately, no one ever came from the Pakistan side, with or without a candle, even though he had implored all his Lahore and Rawalpindi friends to join. My boss began visiting the Wagah border in the mid-1990s with a dozen or so like-minded individuals at the 14-15 August midnight hour and stood there with a lit candle in his hand, hoping to spread a message of amity. ![]() The Lahore club ardently believed that Pakistan wanted peace with India. The tweet reminded me of a former boss of mine who belonged to the ‘Lahore club’ of Lutyens’ Delhi. Let’s reciprocate the spirit of goodwill which made Kartarpur corridor possible." A confident India should support a beleaguered neighbour, despite inimical designs of its deep state. On 13 February, Sunil Jakhar, former president of the Congress in Punjab, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party last year, tweeted: “As millions suffer food shortages, a virtually bankrupt Pakistan desperately needs help. This view is not restricted to opposition leaders and leftist busybodies. ![]() Meanwhile, several Indian politicians and commentators are of the opinion that India should come to Pakistan’s aid. ![]()
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