Eight Cobra Commandos killed in IED blast

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Brigadier Z. A. Khan, "The Way It Was". I love that book and the author's inimitable style; terse to the point of parody. Really well written, in a disillusioned but lucid style that beggars description.

I will try to get hold of this book.

Please don't take this in any other sense than pointing out a real development. Both sides have committed enough of these things on each other for us not to parade our superior moral positions. I make no claim to anything but to establishing a fact.

This I can agree too. We both have our own skeleton to hide. What gets me baffled is when India and Indians try to gain the moral high horse like some angel.

What happened, as you will read in the book, is that Khan, asked to take over an SSG contingent, had to fight off various commanders of regular troops trying to get the commandos to pull their chestnuts out of the fire, and landed up in Chittagong. There he encountered these Mizo contingents - but the rest you can read for yourself.

I will.

Perhaps I should have elaborated.

Even the most decent, upright Pakistani, when serving in certain institutions and positions, have displayed conformity with the norms and practices of those institutions and those positions.

And this is confined somehow to Pakistanis alone? Very judgemental of you.

I admit that there is a certain amount of demonising going on, on both sides. I sometimes find it hard to contain my laughter at the impression that some very young Pakistanis have about the capabilities of RAW. Perhaps knowing some of them is a barrier to taking them too seriously.

RAW has demonstrated it's capability on more than one occasion for not to take them seriously. On the other hand ISI has hardly ever been successful yet every credit is put in their basket by the Indians.

I am sorry that this has upset you.

Why would you think that? We are but having a discussion and I can assure you I am neither upset nor rattled.

That was not the intention.

Yes I know and can assure you such is not the case. Since we were discussing, I had to present the other side. Both of the incidents are real. I am sure you already know that.