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The Simla Agreement - Its Wasted Promise

P R Chari

Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema

Manohar Book Service

218 pages/Rs 390

One of the most poignant comments heard about the Simla Agreement at the recent Agra media circus was one by a Pakistani journalist, a retired Army officer who had fought both the 1965 and 1971 wars.

Triumphantly, he proclaimed that though Pakistan lost the war in 1971, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had won the diplomatic war

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First Published: Aug 02 2001 | 12:00 AM IST

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