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Authors: Humphrey Hawksley

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For my father and my mother

CONTENTS

LIST OF CHARACTERS

Briefing

Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh, India

Drapchi Prison, Lhasa, Tibet

Briefing

Operational Directorate, South Block, New Delhi,

Briefing

Zhongnanhai, Beijing, China

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London

The White House, Washington, DC

Briefing

Chandigarh, India

Zhongnanhai, Beijing, China

Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, New Delhi,

Briefing

Srinagar, the Kashmir Valley, India

Indian Army Headquarters, Srinagar, India

Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, New Delhi,

Briefing

General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

The President’s Office, The White House,

Gongkar County, Tibet

Indian Air Force Base, Lohegaon, Maharastra

General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Briefing

National Security Council, Washington, DC

Briefing

Zhongnanhai, Beijing, China

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London

Foreign Ministry, Beijing, China

General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Constitution Avenue, Islamabad, Pakistan

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London

Foreign Ministry Building, Beijing

Prime Minister’s Residence, Tokyo, Japan

Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, Delhi,

The White House, Washington, DC

Prime Minister’s Residence, Race Course Road,

Zhongnanhai, Beijing, China

Lhodrag, Tibet, China

Parliament Building, Islamabad, Pakistan

Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, New Delhi

New China News Agency, Lhasa, Tibet, China

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London

Foreign Ministry Building, Hong Kong, China

Oval Office, White House, Washington, DC

Kargil, Ladakh, India

Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, Delhi

Zhongnanhai, Beijing, China

Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, New Delhi

Mumbai/Bombay, Maharastra, southern India

Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, New Delhi,

Line of Control, Kashmir

Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, New Delhi

Joint Staff Headquarters, Pakistan

Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, New Delhi

Briefing

China–Bhutan border

Camp David, Maryland, USA

China World Hotel, Beijing, China

India–Pakistan border, Rajasthan, India

Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, New Delhi

India–Pakistan border, Rajasthan, India

Camp David, Maryland, USA

India–Pakistan Border, Rajasthan

General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Baghla, Thar Desert, Pakistan

General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Baghla, Thar Desert, Pakistan

Briefing

Zhongnanhai, Beijing, China

Briefing

The Prime Minister’s Residence, Tokyo

Briefing

The Kremlin, Moscow, Russia

Newsroom, BBC Television Centre, London

Briefing

India–Burma border, Tirap Frontier District,

Presidential helicopter Marine One, USA

Prime Minister’s Office, Downing Street, London

State Department, Washington, DC

Pentagon City, Virginia, USA

The Situation Room, The White House, Washington, DC

Sargodha Airbase, Pakistan: 32° 03' N, 72°

A. Q. Khan Laboratory, Kahuta, Pakistan: 33° 54'

Samungli Airbase, near Quetta, Pakistan: 30° 14'

Multan, Pakistan: 71° 30' N, 30° 15' E

Indian military HQ, Karwana, Haryana, India

Connaught Place, Delhi, India

General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

The Oval Office, The White House, Washington, DC

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London

Prime Minister’s Office, Downing Street, London

National Command Centre, Karwana, Haryana, India

The Situation Room, The White House, Washington, DC

Zhongnanhai, Beijing, China

Cabinet Room, Downing Street, London

CNN Studios, Atlanta, USA

General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

National Command Centre, Karwana, Haryana, India

Srinagar, Kashmir, India

Indian military HQ, Karwana, Haryana, India

The Rose Garden, The White House, Washington, DC

RAF Upper Heyford, Gloucestershire, UK

Eastern Air Command, Shillong, India

Downing Street, London

Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore

Prime Minister’s Office, Canberra, Australia

Great Cocos Island Naval Base, Myanmar/Burma

Western Hills, Military Headquarters, China

The Kremlin, Moscow, Russia

Prime Minister’s Office, Wellington, New Zealand

Downing Street, London

The Situation Room, The White House, Washington, DC

Zhongnanhai, Beijing, China

Kilo
-class submarine 0821, type 877EKM, Bay of

Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, Delhi,

Zhongnanhai, Beijing, China

Briefing

Presidential Palace, Taipei, Taiwan

The Oval Office, The White House, Washington, DC

China World Hotel, Beijing, China

Military Headquarters, Western Hills, China

Prime Minister’s Residence, Tokyo, Japan

Military Headquarters, Western Hills, China

The Situation Room, The White House, Washington, DC

Military Headquarters, Western Hills, China

Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Square, Taipei, Taiwan

Military Headquarters, Western Hills, China

Foreign Ministry, Beijing, China

BBC Television Centre, London

The Situation Room, The White House, Washington, DC

The Kremlin, Moscow, Russia

Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, Delhi,

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, China

Prime Minister’s Office, Tokyo, Japan

The Situation Room, The White House, Washington, DC

Foreign Ministry, Beijing, China

The Situation Room, The White House, Washington, DC

Military Headquarters, Western Hills, China

The Situation Room, The White House, Washington, DC

Operational Directorate, South Block, Delhi, India

USS
Ronald Reagan
, Bay of Bengal: 15° N,

The Kremlin, Moscow, Russia

The Situation Room, The White House, Washington, DC

Xia
-class type 92 strategic missile submarine,

BBC Wood Norton, Evesham, UK

Bombay/Mumbai, India

Operational Directorate, South Block, Delhi, India

The Situation Room, The White House, Washington, DC

Military Headquarters, Western Hills, China

The Kremlin, Moscow, Russia

Operational Directorate, South Block, Delhi, India

The Situation Room, The White House, Washington, DC

LIST OF CHARACTERS

AUSTRALIA

Keith Backhurst – Defence Minister
Malcolm Smith – Prime Minister

CHINA

Kang Suyin – Ambassador to Moscow

Leung Liyin, General – Defence Minister

Tao Jian – President

Tang Siju – Second Deputy, Chief of the General Staff

Tashi – Chinese agent in India

Teng Guo Feng – Ambassador to Islamabad

Jamie Song – Foreign Minister

Lhundrub Togden – jailed Tibetan Buddhist monk

INDIA

Indrajit Bagchi – Home Minister

Colonel Neelan Chidambaram – commander,

Baghla (Wool) sector

Major Gendun Choedrak – Leader of Special Frontier

Force operation

Amrit Dhal – Group Captain, No. 24 Squadron

‘Hunting Hawks’

Hari Dixit – Prime Minister

Captain Tsangpo Jamyang – Second in charge of SFF operation

Corporal Vasant Kaul – Singh’s tank driver

Unni Khrishnan – Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Mani Naidu – Director of the Intelligence Bureau

General Prabhu Ninan – Western army commander

Lieutenant General Gurjit Singh – Commander, XXI

Armoured Corps

Prabhu Purie – Foreign Minister

Chandra Reddy – Special Secretary, Research and Analysis Wing

Shanti Tirthankara – anti-nuclear activist

JAPAN

General Shigehiko Ogawa – Director, Defence

Intelligence Headquarters

Shigeto Wada – Prime Minister

NEW ZEALAND

Michael Hall – SBS Royal Marines sniper

Harriet Sheehan – Prime Minister

Benjamin Leigh – Defence Minister

PAKISTAN

Mullah al-Bishri – Islamic leader

General Sadek Hussein – Special Defence Attaché to Beijing

Javed Jabbar – Ambassador to Beijing

Yasin Kalapur – Air Marshal and coup leader

Dr Malik Khalid – missile physicist

General Mohamed Hamid Khan – Chief of Army Staff and coup leader

Ahmed Magam – deposed Deputy Finance Minister

Captain Mohammed Masood – Khan’s

aide-de-camp

Saeed – Stinger marksman

RUSSIA

Nikolai Baltin – Ambassador to Beijing

Vladimir Gorbunov – President

SINGAPORE

John Chiu – Prime Minister

TAIWAN

Lin Chung-ling – President

UNITED KINGDOM

Christopher Baker – Foreign Secretary

Martin Cartwright – BBC Asia Correspondent

Martin Evans – Head of South Asian Department

Eileen Glenny – Press secretary, Prime Minister’s office

David Guinness – Defence Secretary

General (Rtd) Sir Peter Hanman – BBC television commentator

Max Harding – BBC television presenter

Sir Malcolm Parton – Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Anthony Pincher – Prime Minister

Darren Scott – BBC Asia cameraman

John Stopping – Chairman, Joint Intelligence Committee

Robin Sutcliffe – Head of News Gathering, BBC

Lord Mani Thapar – Indian businessman

UNITED STATES

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