Rakesh Mohan

In a Q&A, senior fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, says govt has not clarified how it will make railways more efficient

Progress must be made to corporatise railways: Rakesh Mohan

Business Standard

"The Jihad in Kashmir is at a critical stage and cannot be disrupted. We have been covering our tracks so far and will cover them even better in the future. These are empty threats. The United States could not declare Pakistan a terrorist state because of our strategic importance… All we need to do is to buy more time and improve our diplomatic effort. The focus should be on Indian atrocities in Kashmir, not on our support for the Kashmiri resistance."The quote is almost a quarter of a century old (1992) and spoken by Javed Nasir, then chief of Inter-Services Intelligence, as he was explaining to Nawaz Sharif, then prime minister of Pakistan, why the latter should ignore US Secretary of State James Baker's letter complaining about "direct covert Government of Pakistan support" to "Kashmiri and Sikh militants who carry out acts of terrorism".Regular readers of Khaled Ahmed's columns would know how difficult a task it can be to quote from his work - there are just too many stunning sto

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Progress must be made to corporatise railways: Rakesh Mohan

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