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To: arun gera who wrote (42616)	5/20/2002 6:51:21 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

<I asked a leading strategic expert: “What military objectives a limited war with Pakistan might achieve?” With utmost respect, I have to say, I got no clear answer.> In days of Kargil disaster, I was one day with ex-Pakistani Air Chief Nur Khan, he was mad like hell on Kargil and asked a very decorated General Gul a simple question, please tell me what are your objectives? His answer was.. 'Costs would be unbearable for India' all Generals think alike. They may go in but like Kargil was difficult to disengage, a limited war will become unlimited and I don't fancy for your sake 140 million more problem makers to start worrying you guys. You will not loose you will definitely win but it will be a A Pyrrhic victory! (A victory gained at too great a cost: like that of the Greek leader Pyrrhus over the Romans in 279BC ! ) Not even considering nukes you will have huge problem of rehabilitation of broken devastated Pakistanis to settle on hand. War is not an option this is exactly what the terrorists want, lets not play in their hands that is my whole crux of the matter.

To: arun gera who wrote (42616)	5/20/2002 7:04:58 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

India wants Musharraf out..“The Indians find Musharraf both unreliable and distasteful,” By Khalid Hasan..Daily Times WASHINGTON: India, according to a leading US expert on South Asia, is hoping for a change in Pakistani leadership since it believes that with Gen Pervez Musharraf in charge, a return to normal relations is entirely ruled out. “The Indians find Musharraf both unreliable and distasteful,” the expert, who did not wish to be identified, told this correspondent Monday. He said the view in New Delhi was that it would be best for everyone if Musharraf were to step down. “The military leadership in Pakistan may have come to a point where it wants Musharraf to do an Iskander Mirza and leave rather than do a Yahya and push the country over the precipice,” he said. “The nightmare scenario is that Musharraf has brought Pakistan exactly where Yahya had brought it in 1971 — on the edge of disaster,” the expert told ‘Daily Times’, adding, “No one wants a repeat of the situation where one man’s blind ambition and refusal to see things as they are destroys an entire country. “Initially”, he explained, “Musharraf may have been viewed, despite his role in Kargil, as a person with whom business was possible, but his growing megalomania and his penchant for trying to outmanoeuvre everybody, had left even his well-wishers frustrated and convinced that the best thing for both Pakistan and the region would be for Musharraf to either leave or be eased out.” The expert said that in case Musharraf does not leave, he might be persuaded to shed some of the powers he has assumed. However, the way he was going and the wide-ranging amendments to the 1973 constitution that were now on the anvil held out little hope of that happening, he added. The expert said the Referendum, which had been seen as no more than a farce both inside and outside Pakistan, had weakened Musharraf and seriously damaged his credibility. His contempt for legitimate, mainstream political parties and their leaders, led by Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, had further created the impression in world capitals that the kind of one-man rule Musharraf wanted to impose on Pakistan would only bring disaster, not only to his own nation but the region as a whole. The United States is said to be privately distressed at Musharraf’s actions and his failure to have delivered on his promises. Washington feels that the General has neither staged a meaningful crackdown on terrorism, nor liberalised his regime, nor acted to put a compete end to what India calls “cross-border terrorism.” So far, publicly, Washington has been expressing its appreciation for Musharraf but tensions are building among policy and decision makers as to what extent and for how long can Musharraf can be supported or defended. In the event of military action by India, many in Washington believe, the first casualty would be Gen. Musharraf. (Mr Khalid Hasan is Daily Times’ Special Correspondent in Washington)