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Shooting the messenger

Saturday, October 13th, 2007
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A Surya Prakash
It is indeed strange that in this age of transparency and accountability, an anachronistic law like the Official Secrets Act is used by Government to harass a distinguished soldier and fellow citizen who has done his country proud by exposing the corruption and inefficiency in India’s external intelligence agency - the Research and […]

‘Nehru offered plebiscite, Pak agreed’

Thursday, August 9th, 2007
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I should probably add another category, Chacha Nehru’s Goofups. Full article from Pioneer below
‘Nehru offered plebiscite, Pak agreed’
Nandini Jawli | London
Secrets unveiled
The declassified documents from 1948 regarding Jammu & Kashmir show that Jawahar Lal Nehru had proposed to Pakistan, plebiscite in the State conducted by the United Nations.
Pakistan agreed to this and argued for […]