India-Pakistan Summit Through the Media Mill

Mr. Inder Kumar Gujral during his talk at the Seminar on “Indo-Pak Summit – An Appraisal” organised by the Indian Council of World Affairs on 27 July 2001 at Sapru House, New Delhi

Reports of Central Monitoring Services of All India Radio

Professor Hassan Askar Rizvi who was in India before the Agra Summit for the Indian Council of Social Science Research Seminar and who had an interactive discussion at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in July 2001

Editor, Nawa-I-Waqt, who was pulled up by Pervez Musharraf for his question during the latter's media conference in Islamabad on return from the Agra summit

Wide coverage in Indian media

Asma Jehangir headed a 61 Pakistani women's group which visited India in May 2000 with an interactive discussion at the India International Centre and a media conference in the Indian Women's Press Corps. When asked by the author as to what was the meaning of Pervez Musharraf, as CEO of Pakistan, saluting the body of a terrorist draped in the Pakistani National Flag, she stated “Militancy is celebrated while talks are always threatened”

Diary of Lt. Mohammad Maazullah Khan Sumbal, 8 Northern Light Infantry, recovered from Point 4812 in the Battalik Sector during Operation Vijay and released to media by Army Headquarters. The second entry of 2 January, 1999 reads “Reached Skardu at 1000 hrs and reported to the unit (8 NLI)…”

Mr Inder Kumar Gujral during his talk at the ICWA Seminar on 27 July 2001

“Parody of Peace” by Bhat Anil , Sahara Magazine, April 2001

“The Week” 15 July 2001. This also included a statement from Shankaranand Dhyani, father of posthumous Vir Chakra awardee, Rifleman Ausuya Prasad who died in Kargil and another from Col VN Thapar (Retd), father of late Lt V Thapar who stated …. we are talking about peace but an average of 20 people are killed every day on both sides ever since the visit was announced …………”

Mr. S. Narendra, former Principal Information Officer

MEA Website www.meadev.nic.in - Verbatim record of Press Conference of Mr Jaswant Singh, External Affairs Minister

Sharma Vinod Mr. , Hindustan Times who is a former Islamabad correspondent of the newspaper

Mitra Chandan Mr , Managing Director and Editor, The Pioneer