Thursday, June 10, 1999
High insecurity
The core strategic policy group of the National Security Council, comprising the heads of the intelligence agencies, various ministers and secretaries and the service chiefs, has finally met and declared the future to be a difficult but essentially safe place.
Critical talks
Agreement on a date for the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan to meet comes almost as an anticlimax to the booming guns on the border and the political crosstalk in the two capitals over the last couple of weeks.
NATO overreaches
Apprehensions have been expressed, including in this column, about the interventionist role of NATO in Yugoslavia, reflecting a broad consensus of opinion in the strategic and political establishments in India.
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