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To: JPR who wrote (5399)	7/31/1999 9:17:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 12475

Ref: 'Pakistan's wars for a ceasefire' (The Dawn) JPR: Hope the Air Marshal and the editor don't get in to trouble for this.Thanks for the url,the articles were indeed very interesting.It appears that there are a lot of people in Pakistan who are against this 'let us get India' business. ======================== By Air Marshal M. Asghar Khan (Rtd) IN FIFTY-TWO years of its existence, Pakistan has fought four wars with India without a clear objective. The first started within months of the creation of Pakistan for the control of Kashmir, was ill-conceived and unplanned. ... ============= The battle of lobbies Masood Haider The recent conflict in Kashmir evoked extraordinary nationalist feelings among Indian expatriates living in the United States, spurred by a plethora of anti-Pakistan army advertisements in the American newspapers and on the websites of almost all Indian newspapers, compelling them to open their chequebooks and hearts to help the Indian soldiers on the front lines...... "It is amazing what the response is," said one Indian expatriate who works for New York City and is the president of the federation of Indian associations, in interviews with newspapers here. The Indian embassy in Washington has been receiving cheques from Indian expatriates for the defence fund. The response by the Indian community has been unprecedented, the Indians claim. Some estimates of such donations add up to millions of dollars..... When Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited New York following his Washington trip and strolled the streets of Manhattan to shop around with his family, the impression that was conveyed was that there was no urgency at home, that all was well and things would change for the better following the Washington agreement. While the prime minister and his close aides walked around the Sony Center one official came up to the journalists and remarked: "I think Indian community is more patriotic than the Pakistanis. Look at them they collected so much money after the explosion of the bomb, we got nothing from our community." ...