TY - BOOK AU - MacDonald,Myra TI - Defeat is an orphan: how Pakistan lost the great South Asian war SN - 9780670089437 AV - U264.5.P18 M33 2017 U1 - 355.0217095491 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Haryana PB - Penguin/Random House India KW - Nuclear weapons KW - Pakistan KW - India KW - Diplomatic relations KW - fast KW - Foreign relations KW - History KW - 21st century N1 - Theory of Knowledge; Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-296) and index; Prologue: The spider's web -- Settling a score: from 1947 to the nuclear tests -- "A brilliant tactical operation": Pakistan's defeat in the Kargil War of 1999 -- The general and the poet: from the Kargil War to the Agra summit -- The assassins from afar: Pakistan and Afghanistan -- "Somebody's going to pay": from the September 11 attacks to the end of 2001 -- The attack on the Indian Parliament: the trial of Afzal Guru -- Pursuit of valour: the India-Pakistan military standoff, 2001-2002 -- In the name of the people: a short history of the Kashmir dispute from 1846 to state elections in 2002 -- The noble lie: the India-Pakistan peace talks, 2001-2007 -- War by other means: the attack on Mumbai -- Anatomy of murder: Pakistan's relationship with its north-west frontier, 1947-2011 -- Pursuit of parity: the closing years -- Epilogue: A jaw for a tooth N2 - Tracks the defining episodes in the relationship between India and Pakistan since 1998 ER -