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COVER STORY: INDO-PAK SUMMIT
VILLAIN OF THE PEACE
The chronicle of a summit as told by the Pakistan
media
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MORNING NEWS: The Pak media portrays India as the author
of the Agra wreckage
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* (Pakistani) Officials
said the talks collapsed dramatically after both President Musharraf and
PM Vajpayee had approved the joint declaration and the two foreign ministers
had also okayed but officials raised objections which could not be sorted
out, despite the last ditch efforts by the two leaders.
—Report in The News, July
17
* Against the political
consequences of a failed summit, (Vajpayee) had to balance the BJP up
in arms against him, its frenzy whipped up by Advani, the party's pitbull.
—M.A. Niazi in The Nation,
July 17
* Musharraf entered the
lion's den on Monday and emerged with his audience purring like pussycats.
—Report in The News, July
17
* (The failure in Agra)
goes to prove how the BJP Government has become hostage to the hardliners
who now constitute the core of the ruling party. It appears that Pakistan
was being overconfident about the prospects of a breakthrough on Kashmir.
—Editorial in Dawn, July
18
* "Barring one adviser
whose counsel he trusts most, no one was around to enable (Vajpayee) to
take the bold step he had planned," the prime minister's friend said.
—Report in Dawn, July 18
* "After listening
to his (Musharraf's) frank but courteous talk on the centrality of Kashmir,
a journalist told him all senior journalists of India agreed with his
perception. It's the Indian Government which thinks otherwise. And none
of the editors contradicted him."
—Pakistan High Commissioner
Ashraf Jehangir
Qazi quoted in a report in The News, July 19
* The whole
nation was hooked up to PTV's live transmission for the latest news and
views. But it was full of typical rhetoric, which is the hallmark of poor
government propaganda. It was as information-less as it had been during
the midnight dismissals of many governments.
—Khalid Mahmood Rasul
in The Nation, July 19
* "Peace and security"
were given top priority in the list of issues India had drawn for a composite
dialogue. "But thanks to the understanding reached in Agra, Kashmir
now gets the first place. Not only that, India and Pakistan will now discuss
it at political level also,"
(Ashraf Jehangir) Qazi underlined.
—Report in The News, July
19
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