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RE:India needs to try the stick
by sri on Apr 09, 2008 01:05 AM

"sheer number of Pakistan Army prisoners of war in India made the Government release them as a humanitarian gesture."

I dont think it was the hugeness of the number that made them release them. Making a positive gesture to ease tension was the real reason for Indira Gandhi. Otherwise, they could have just as easily kept back a more manageable 100 of them as ransom during the negotations. But they did not.

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