About the Book: Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years
Kashmir was an issue close to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayees heart.
There were repeated setbacks, first the Kargil war, General Pervez Musharrafs
coup in Pakistan, the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC 814 in December
1999 and the Parliament attack two years later. But he countered each with an
initiative full of hope-the bus to Lahore in 1999, the Agra Summit in 2001 and
finally the hand of friendship extended to Pakistan in Srinagar in May 2003.
A.S. Dulat, chief of the Research and Analysis Wing under Vajpayee and Indias
foremost Kashmir expert, brings nearly two decades of