Table of Contents

CONTENTS ; FOREWORD ; PREFACE ; PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION ; 1. THE EMERGENCE OF PAKISTAN ; HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ; 2. FOREIGN POLICY-BEGINNINGS ; THE FOUNDING FATHER'S VISION ; ENDURING RELEVANCE OF PRINCIPLES ; THE SHADOW OF PARTITION ; THE MUSLIM WORLD ; 3. THE KASHMIR QUESTION, 1947-57 ; THE DISPUTE ; AT THE UNITED NATIONS ; THE DISPUTE FESTERS ; 4. SEARCH FOR SECURITY ; USSR ; APPROACHES TO THE USA ; KOREAN WAR ; JAPAN ; CHINA ; 5. ALLIANCES ; FOUR ALLIANCES ; 6. ALLIANCES-COSTS AND BENEFITS ; COSTS OF THE ALLIANCES ; US ALLIANCE STRENGTHENED ; BENEFITS OF THE ALLIANCES ; SWINGS OF OPINION IN THE USA AND PAKISTAN ; 7. RELATIONS WITH CHINA AND OTHER DEVELOPMENTS ; CHINA ; PAKISTAN-CHINA BOUNDARY AGREEMENT, 1962 ; SINO-PAKISTAN ENTENTE ; OMAN: GWADAR RETROCESSION ; INDUS WATERS TREATY, 1960 ; INDIA-CHINA BORDER WAR, 1962 ; PAKISTAN-US RELATIONS CORRODED ; NEGOTIATIONS ON KASHMIR, 1962-63 ; CHANGING STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT ; ALLIANCE UNDER STRAIN ; AYUB KHAN'S VISITS TO CHINA AND THE USSR ; SECOND AFRO-ASIAN SUMMIT ; US REACTION ; RCD AND IPECC ; 8. THE PAKISTAN-INDIA WAR, 1965 ; CLASH IN KUTCH ; OPERATION GIBRALTAR ; ESCALATION TO WAR ; STANCE OF FOREIGN POWERS ; THE TASHKENT DECLARATION ; BILATERALISM ; 9. BITTER LEGACY OF WAR, 1965-71 ; ORGANIZATION OF THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE ; 10. 1971 DISASTER ; BHUTTO'S NEW POLICY, 1971-73 ; 11. SHIMLA AGREEMENT: NEGOTIATING UNDER DURESS ; OPENING GAMBIT ; PRINCIPLES OF RELATIONS ; WITHDRAWAL FROM OCCUPIED TERRITORY ; JAMMU AND KASHMIR ; DENOUEMENT ; ASSESSMENT ; SECRET UNDERSTANDING? ; NORMALISATION WITH BANGLADESH ; 12. THE NUCLEAR PROGRAMME AND RELATIONS WITH THE USA ; 13. THE AFGHANISTAN CRISIS ; REVIVAL OF THE US ALLIANCE ; GENEVA ACCORDS ; 14. KASHMIR: THE STRUGGLE FOR AZADI ; 15. THE AFGHANISTAN CIVIL WAR, 1990-1998 ; THE RISE OF THE TALIBAN ; PROXY WAR ; FATAL BLUNDERS ; RETROSPECT ; 16. PAKISTAN-INDIA DISPUTES AND CRISES ; SIR CREEK ; SIACHEN: A DISPUTE WITHIN A DISPUTE ; SALAL, WULLAR, BAGLIHAR, AND KISHENGANGA PROJECTS ; CONSULAR MISSIONS ; INDIAN PLAN FOR ATTACK ON KAHUTA, 1984 ; THE BRASSTACKS CRISIS, 1986-87 ; RE-ENTRY TO THE COMMONWEALTH ; WAR AVERTED, 1990 ; DISARMAMENT ISSUES ; 17. NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND MISSILE SYSTEMS ; NUCLEAR TESTS ; ISSUES AND NON-ISSUES ; 18. INCREASING ISOLATION, 1990-2001 ; US SANCTIONS AGAIN ; SUPPORT FOR THE TALIBAN ; DECLINING PRESTIGE ; NUCLEAR TESTS ; PAKISTAN-INDIA DIALOGUE, 1997-99 ; THE KARGIL CRISIS, 1999 ; COPING WITH ISOLATION ; THE AGRA SUMMIT ; 19. POST-9/11 POLICY ; POLICY PLANNING BY PAKISTAN ; US POLICY ; CONSULTATION WITH OPINION LEADERS ; ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND ASSISTANCE ; 20. ON-OFF PARTNERSHIP WITH USA, 2001 - 2012 ; 21. TERRORISM ; ISSUES AND NON-ISSUES ; 22. AFGHANISTAN, 2001 - 2012 ; 23. PAKISTAN-INDIA RELATIONS ; RETROSPECT ; 24. PAKISTAN-CHINA ALL WEATHER FRIENDSHIP ; 25. INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS ; HUMAN RIGHTS ; INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (IFIS) ; SAARC AND ECO ; 26. POLICY IN A CHANGING WORLD ; INTERNATIONAL POLITICS ; GLOBAL POWER HIERARCHY ; FOREIGN POLICY APPRAISAL ; APPENDICES ; I. THE SHIMLA AGREEMENT, 1972 ; II. COMPOSITE DIALOGUE, 1997-98 ; III. THE LAHORE DECLARATION, 21 FEBRUARY 1999 ; IV. THE AGRA DECLARATION, 2001 DRAFT AGREEMENT ; V. PRESIDENTS, PRIME MINISTERS AND FOREIGN ; MINISTERS OF PAKISTAN ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

About the Author

With a thirty-nine year career span in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdul Sattar was twice Pakistan's Foreign Minister, from July to October 1993, and from 1999 to 2002. He was Foreign Secretary from 1986 to 1988 and twice Pakistan's Ambassador to India. He also served as Ambassador to the USSR and Permanent Representative to the IAEA in Vienna. As a Distinguished Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, he wrote a research paper 'Reducing Nuclear Dangers in South Asia' which was published in the Nonproliferation Review in 1994, and later in Dawn. His other research paper, 'Shimla Pact: Negotiating Under Duress', was published in journals in Islamabad and New Delhi in 1995. He also contributed the section on foreign policy in the book Pakistan in Perspective, 1947-1997, published by Oxford University Press on the fiftieth anniversary of Pakistan.