Sunday, May 25, 2008

The Pakistani Bomb is, and has been, a Joint Venture

Arun Shourie "But What was the immediate threat?," ask the pundits. "Why now?," they demand. I K Gujral adds the considerable weight of having been Prime Minister to the argument: as one who had access to secret information as Prime Minister, he tells Parliament, I say that when I left office there was no threat that warranted the explosions.By 1969 Gujral was in Mrs Gandhi�s inner circle. Mrs