Journalistic deadlines can be deadly in effect. Thus it was a slip of the pen in this column last week that put the price for allowing the thief to retain our stolen property of Pak Occupied Kashmir at Rs 10 billion when, infact, the mind's intent was $ 10 billion for India forfeiting that territory and accepting the LoC as the international border.

While that error is regretted, there is no slip in putting the tag of someRs 480 billion on 78,114 sq kms of our stolen property. Remember, PoK touches the border of Pakistan on the west, kisses Afghanistan (read Taleban) on the north-west and touches China on the east. It is therefore a gigantic, critically strategic crown that could well bottle up Srinagar along with the rest of India lying south if the centrifugal forces of economic uncertainty and social unrest stirring across PoK as well as Pakitself ultimately become a whirlpool of unimaginable proportions under fundamentalist fangs and the red dragon's fire.

rest of the article is at http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/jun/27arvind.htm

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