Part III

South Asia

SOVIET BUILDUP SEEN AT AFGHAN FRONTIER . . . ZIA DENIES PAKISTAN BUILDS NUCLEAR BOMB AND URGES U.S. TO RESUME AID . . . KABUL PEACE TALKS FAIL, AND SHELLING GOES ON . . . India is now a nuclear weapons state . . . PLANE CRASHES COLLAPSE WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWERS . . . THE AMERICAN OFFENSIVE BEGINS . . . AFGHAN LEADER IS SWORN IN, ASKING FOR HELP TO REBUILD . . . If we deliver, this will be a great day. If we don’t deliver, this will go into oblivion . . . MASSACRE IN MUMBAI . . . America, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home . . . OSAMA BIN LADEN KILLED . . . Al Qaeda leadership is a shadow of itself . . . AFGHANISTAN’S SUCCESS STORY? ITS YOUNG LEADERS . . . America’s combat mission in Afghanistan came to a responsible end . . . PESHAWAR SCHOOL ATTACK LEAVES 114 DEAD . . . “PROBABLY THE LARGEST” AL QAEDA TRAINING CAMP EVER IS DESTROYED IN AFGHANISTAN . . . AYMAN AL ZAWAHIRI PLEDGES ALLEGIANCE TO THE TALIBAN’S NEW EMIR . . . I immediately cancelled the meeting and called off peace negotiations . . . AT U.S. URGING, PAKISTAN TO BE PLACED ON TERRORISM-FINANCING LIST . . . India is a democracy; it is in our DNA . . . RECORD-HIGH NUMBER OF CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN AFGHANISTAN . . . Countries do not fight endless wars . . . INDIA BOMBS PAKISTAN IN RESPONSE TO KASHMIR TERRORIST ATTACK . . . PROTESTS OVER THE CITIZENSHIP ACT ARE RALLYING INDIANS AROUND THEIR COUNTRY’S FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES . . . We have done Gandhi’s bidding . . . A U.S. TALIBAN DEAL HINGES ON REDUCING VIOLENCE . . .