Reference the the comments of B Raman on my book. Of course, he is entitled to his views as I am to mine. I would not like to join issue, except on the matter concerning the Kargil tapes, which he calls %u2018the greatest PSYWAR coup ever scored by the R&AW in its history%u2019. Firstly, RAW%u2019s job is to collect intelligence, and not psywar. It only corroborated the Army%u2019s contention that regular soldiers of the Pak Army were involved. The fact that there were differences between Nawaz Sharif and the Service Chiefs was an useful piece of intelligence, that is all. How does it become psy war? He goes on to say that the decision of the government to publicise the intercept had beneficial effects, such as convincing USA and China of Pak%u2019s complicity and damaging her credibility. Are India and Pakistan school children and USA and China headmasters that we have to complain against each other to them? What about the damage to our intelligence capability? He says that the flow of intelligence could have dried up temporarily. Just what does this mean? One year, ten years or more? No one knows how much more intelligence we could have got on that link. He feels the decision helped to exert pressure on Pak to withdraw and prevented loss of further lives. I do not agree. Pakistan withdrew because the Indian Army threw them out, period. One last thing. Two RAW officers, Rabinder Singh and Brigadier Ujjal Das Gupta have been charged with giving away intelligence held by RAW to USA, in violat
