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To: JPR who wrote (6206)	9/2/1999 9:52:00 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Hint of dangerous dichotomy: Paki Govt & rogue Military branch off. The BRAIN does not know what the BRAWN is doing - a case of dead brain and twitching brawn excerpt: the backdrop of various reports that Pakistan?s political leadership was not fully aware of the details of the operations in Kargil as it was basically an Army-sponsored affair. Pakistani air chief hints at continuation of Indo-Pak conflicts Islamabad: Pakistan?s air chief Air Marshal Pervez Mehdi Qureshi has hinted at continuation of ?low intensity conflicts? between India and Pakistan despite the nuclear deterrence.?The concept of geo-political stability based on nuclear deterrence is yet to crystallise,? Marshal Qureshi said while addressing the participants of Army command and Staff College Quetta on Tuesday. ?Perhaps the proponents of this theory had begun to propose an enhanced probability of increased low-intensity conflicts between the two protagonists (India and Pakistan), much before Kargil became a reality,? he said.Qureshi said lessons to be learnt from Kargil ?is that despite various theories of deterrence, armed conflicts between nations will occur if there are other destabilising factors,? official APP news agency reported. ?Nuclear and conventional capabilities are two separate mediums of armed conflict, neither c1an replace the other and each is governed by its own set of dynamics,? he said, adding, ?we need to remember that real wars will continue to be fought with conventional forces.??Therefore, despite our nuclear parity with India we just cannot scale down our conventional war capability as a vital instrument of national defence.? Qureshi, who had recently visited China to finalise a deal for 100 light fighter aircrafts for Pakistan, emphasised that air power had emerged as the ?prime means of executing the modern warfare? which had been proved in the recent Gulf war and Kosovo. The Pakistani air chief said the air power had proved ?its primacy as an element of warfare and strategy over the entire spectrum of conflicts ? from low-intensify to an all-out open war.? Qureshi?s comments assume significance in the backdrop of various reports that Pakistan?s political leadership was not fully aware of the details of the operations in Kargil as it was basically an Army-sponsored affair.